) was a Swiss diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

He replaced Maximilian Jaeger

Maximilian Jaeger

Maximilian Jaeger was a Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944In 1936, Jaeger was transferred to Budapest, where Switzerland had set up an embassy that year. He was head of the Swiss mission, and was direct supervisor of Carl Lutz. Jaeger played a role in opposing the deportation of Jews by...

 (c1915-1999) as head of the Swiss legation in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. He supported Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz was the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He helped save tens of thousands of Jews from deportation to Nazi Extermination camps during the Holocaust. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews...

 with the rescue of Jews under Swiss protection. Feller worked closely with the other neutral legations in constantly pressuring the Horthy and Sztójay governments to end the persecution and deportations of Jews. Feller protected members of the Swedish legation, who were targeted by the Arrow Cross Party

Arrow Cross Party

The Arrow Cross Party was a national socialist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which led in Hungary a government known as the Government of National Unity from October 15, 1944 to 28 March 1945...

, by giving them false Swiss passports and providing shelter. Toward the end of the war, Feller hid dozens of Jews in the basement of his consular residence in Budapest. In February 1945, the Soviets arrested Feller and Maximilian Jaeger and sent him to Moscow

Moscow

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, along with other Swiss nationals. They both were returned to Switzerland in February 1946 in exchange for two pilots that defected to Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Feller lives in Bern, Switzerland. He received his Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

award in 1999.