Jean de Muralt

Jean de Muralt or Johannes von Muralt[1] (18 July 1877, Zurich - 10 November 1947, Zurich), was a Swiss lawyer and the chairman of the International League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from 1944 to 1945.

[2][3] He studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Berlin, Munich and Zurich, and in 1902 completed his studies with a dissertation on parliamentary immunity in Germany and Switzerland.

In 1938, he became president of the Swiss Red Cross and held the office until 1946.

During the Second World War, from 1940 to 1941, he was Swiss Federal Commissar for Internment and Hospitalisation.

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