Lindt, Auguste Rudolph

▪ 2001

      Swiss diplomat (b. Aug. 5, 1905, Bern, Switz.—d. April 15/16, 2000, Switzerland), as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1956–60) provided assistance for refugees fleeing Hungary after Soviet intervention there in 1956 and for Algerian refugees in North Africa the next year; Lindt, who had trained as a lawyer and worked as a foreign correspondent for several European newspapers, was Switzerland's permanent observer to the UN (1953–56) and, after he left his UN post, served as his country's ambassador to the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Mongolia, India, and Nepal.

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