
Alfred de Claparède (10 February 1842-27 September 1922) was a Swiss diplomat who served as Ambassador to the German Empire from 1915 to 1917.
Biography[]
Alfred de Claparède was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1842, the son of politician Charles-Claude de Claparède. He became Switzerland's first professional diplomat in 1869, becoming counselor at the legation in Prussia that same year and helping to mediate the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. He remained at the court of the German Empire until 1888, and he also served as charge d'affaires at the legation in Austria-Hungary in 1883. Claparède went on to serve as Ambassador to the United States from 1888 to 1893, settling the 1891 Baltimore crisis between the United States and Chile. He returned to Europe to serve as Ambassador to Austria from 1893 to 1904, Ambassador to Germany from 1904 to 1917, and Ambassador to Sweden from 1915 to 1917. He died in Berlin in 1922, and his son Alfred de Claparède went on to serve as a diplomat in Bulgaria from 1938 to 1941.