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Hans Frölicher
PvOberstein: /* Ambassador to Germany */ Frölicher replaced Paul Dinichert, who had served as Ambassador to Germany between 1932 and 1938.[1]
Dr. '''Hans Frölicher'''</ref>}} (1887 - 1961)<ref name="Cohen2013"></ref> was the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] ambassador to [[Germany]] during World War II. He remains controversial in Switzerland due to his synmpathies for the Third Reich while Ambassador in [[Berlin]].<ref></ref><ref name="Fritzsche2016"></ref>
==Ambassador to Germany==
Frölicher replaced Paul Dinichert, who had served as Ambassador to Germany between 1932 and 1938.<ref name="BajohrStrupp2011"></ref> Frölicher was received by [[Adolf Hitler]] as Ambassador to Germany at a ceremony on June 9, 1938.<ref name="Bruppacher2013"></ref> Early in his tenure, Frölicher was able to delay relocating the Swiss Embassy, which had been required to fulfill [[Albert Speer|Albert Speer's]] vision of [[Germania (city)|Germania]].<ref></ref> Beginning in 1938, Frölicher was involved in negotiations between the governments of Germany and Switzerland aimed at reducing the number of [[Jews]] seeking refuge in Switzerland.<ref name="New1997"></ref>
In 1939, a Swiss theology student named [[Maurice Bavaud]] attempted to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]]. Although Bavaud was facing execution, Fröhlicher refused to intervene, going so far as to decline an offer to exchange Bavaud for captured Gestapo spies imprisoned in Switzerland.<ref></ref><ref name="Haasis2013"></ref>
Frölicher remained the Swiss Ambassador to Germany until 1945.<ref></ref>
==Post-ambassadorship==
A memoir of his was privately published in 1962, entitled ''Meine Aufgabe in Berlin'' (''My Task in Berlin'').<ref name="Braunschweig2004"></ref>
==Notes==
==References==
[[Category:1887 births]]
[[Category:1961 deaths]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Switzerland to Germany]]
==Ambassador to Germany==
Frölicher replaced Paul Dinichert, who had served as Ambassador to Germany between 1932 and 1938.<ref name="BajohrStrupp2011"></ref> Frölicher was received by [[Adolf Hitler]] as Ambassador to Germany at a ceremony on June 9, 1938.<ref name="Bruppacher2013"></ref> Early in his tenure, Frölicher was able to delay relocating the Swiss Embassy, which had been required to fulfill [[Albert Speer|Albert Speer's]] vision of [[Germania (city)|Germania]].<ref></ref> Beginning in 1938, Frölicher was involved in negotiations between the governments of Germany and Switzerland aimed at reducing the number of [[Jews]] seeking refuge in Switzerland.<ref name="New1997"></ref>
In 1939, a Swiss theology student named [[Maurice Bavaud]] attempted to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]]. Although Bavaud was facing execution, Fröhlicher refused to intervene, going so far as to decline an offer to exchange Bavaud for captured Gestapo spies imprisoned in Switzerland.<ref></ref><ref name="Haasis2013"></ref>
Frölicher remained the Swiss Ambassador to Germany until 1945.<ref></ref>
==Post-ambassadorship==
A memoir of his was privately published in 1962, entitled ''Meine Aufgabe in Berlin'' (''My Task in Berlin'').<ref name="Braunschweig2004"></ref>
==Notes==
==References==
[[Category:1887 births]]
[[Category:1961 deaths]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Switzerland to Germany]]
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