Paul Lachenal

As a result, he completed an internship at the law firm of his uncle (the president of the Confederation) Adrien Lachenal.

The political career of Paul Lachenal, began as member of the Liberation Democratic Party in 1914, and his election to the Geneva City Council, to which belonged till 1922.

In 1927, he was appointed president of the German-Polish Mixed Arbitral Tribunal by the Council of the League of Nations, a position which he holds for several years, until the close of the court's operations.

As a member and delegate of the International Committee for the Safeguarding of Spanish Art Treasures,[4] created in January 1939, he played an important role in the safeguard operation of the Prado museum, during the Spanish Civil War, which paintings found refuge in Geneva.

174 of these paintings were exhibited in the halls of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva) in June, July and August 1939.