Agostino Giorgio Soldati
Agostino Giorgio Soldati was a Swiss lawyer, diplomat and Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to France. His family originated from Neggio.
Education, career and death
After attending school in Lugano and studying law in Milan, Vienna and Bern, where he received his doctorate in 1934, Agostino Giorgio Soldati joined the Federal Political Department in 1938. As a young diplomat, he worked as a commissioner for economic affairs in Bern, Rom, Paris and Lisbon. From 1940 to 1944 he was posted to Berlin, where he represented the interests of 21 countries to the Third Reich.New York, Paris and a château in Switzerland
In 1957, Agostino Giorgio Soldati was appointed observer to the United Nations in New York with the title of Minister Plenipotentiary. In 1958, he returned to Paris where he became the head of the Swiss delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with headquarters at 28 Rue de Martignac, just around the corner from the Hôtel de Besenval. In the same year, through the mediation of Dora von Salis, wife of the former Swiss envoy to France, Minister Peter Anton von Salis, Marguerite Daisy Soldati-Thome, Comtesse de Contades, wife of Agostino Giorgio Soldati, purchased the Château de Trévelin in Aubonne in 1958 from the banker Édouard Bordier, partner of Bordier & Cie, and, after his death during the transaction, from his heirs, respectively. According to oral tradition, Marguerite Daisy Soldati-Thome bought the château unseen, only on the basis of the oral telephone descriptions of Dora von Salis, who lived nearby in Mont-sur-Rolle. In addition to personalities from Switzerland, it was above all the French haute volée who met at the Château de Trévelin, including Alain Poher and René Pleven.In 1959, Agostino Giorgio Soldati was already a delegate to the European Coal and Steel Community, he was accredited as the first ambassador to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community in Brussels, with residence in Paris.