Jean de Muralt

Johannes von Muralt ( born July 18, 1877 in Zurich, † November 10, 1947 ) was a Swiss lawyer and officer. He studied law at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Zurich ( member of the Corps Tigurinia ), and graduated in 1902 with a thesis on parliamentary immunity in Germany and Switzerland. Subsequently, he was district attorney from 1903 to 1907.

From 1908 to 1932 he worked as a training officer of artillery in the Swiss Army. In 1913 he became an officer in the General Staff and in 1926 to colonel in 1932 and promoted to Major General. From 1932 to 1937 he was with the rank of commander of the Zurich Oberstdivisionärs Field Division 6

In 1938 he became President of the Swiss Red Cross and had the office until 1946. During the Second World War, he was from 1940 to 1941 the federal commissioner for the detention and hospitalization. From 1944 to 1945 he took over the leadership of the League of Red Cross Societies, today the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies after the death of Norman Davis. He was so since the organization was founded in 1919, whose first chairman, who was not from the U.S.. He was succeeded by Basil O'Connor.