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Agda Rössel
Agda Viola Rössel, née ''Jäderström'' (4 November 1910 – 27 May 2001) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrat) and diplomat. She was appointed Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations in 1958 and was as the first of her gender to have been permanently placed in that position among the 60 UN ambassadors that year in the United Nations organisation; she served in that position till 1964. After this assignment she was Sweden's Ambassador to many countries such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Greece. Biography Early life Agda Rössel née Jäderström was born in Gällivare, Norrbotten, Sweden on 4 November 1910; Gällivare is a small town engaged in mining to in the far north of Sweden to the north of the Arctic Circle. Her father was a railway employee. She was the fourth child in family of six children. She was keen in studies. She attended schools in Gällivare and in Malmberget. Even though she wanted to train as a doctor, due to her mother's illness a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gällivare
Gällivare (; fi, Jällivaara; se, Jiellevárri or ; smj, Jiellevárre or ; fit, Jellivaara) is a locality and the seat of Gällivare Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 8,449 inhabitants in 2010. The town was founded in the 17th century. Together with nearby towns Malmberget and Koskullskulle it forms a conurbation with some 15,000 inhabitants. This conurbation is the second northernmost significant urban area of Sweden after Kiruna. Gällivare is situated at the northern end of the Inlandsbanan railway line, about 100 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Gällivare is located in a major iron ore mining region. Adjacent to Gällivare (about five kilometres) is Malmberget, known as a site for iron ore extraction from deep mines by LKAB. Outside Gällivare lies the ski resort Dundret, which is equipped with six ski lifts and ten groomed slopes along with a conference center and hotel. The ski season stretches from the end of October all the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sverker Åström
Carl Sverker Åström (30 December 1915 – 26 June 2012) was a Swedish diplomat. Youth and education Åström was born in Uppsala, the son of John Åström, a lawyer, and his wife, Brita ( née Kugelberg). His father died shortly before the Kreuger Crash in 1930. Åström studied at Uppsala University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1935 and a Candidate of Law in 1939. Åström was a member of the National Student Association in Uppsala, an organization affiliated with the pro-Nazi National League of Sweden, from 1932 to 1937. Diplomatic career Following his studies, Åström was employed as an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. From 1940 to 1943 he served at the Swedish mission to the Soviet Union, first in Moscow and then in Kuybyshev. In 1946 he became secretary of legation at the Swedish embassy in Washington, D.C. He returned to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1948 and became its head of division in 1949. From 1953 to 1956 he served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy Of Sweden, Athens
Embassy of Sweden in Athens is the diplomatic mission of Sweden in Greece. Buildings Chancery In the 1940s, the embassy was located at Rue Patriarchou Ioakim 20 in Athens. In the early 1960s, the embassy had moved to Rue Stissichorou 15. In 1964, the embassy moved to Rue Meleagrou. By the early 1970s, the embassy had moved to Boulevard Vassileos Konstantinou. , the Swedish Embassy's premises are located at Vassileos Konstantinou 7, at the top of the fifth floor of a building built in 1977. The building also houses the embassies of the Netherlands and Ireland. Across the street is the Panathenaic Stadium from 1896, the year the first modern Olympic Games took place. The Swedish Embassy moved in during 1979 and in connection with that the office was rebuilt. Ten years later, in 1989, a thorough renovation and installation of a new reception, security lock and interview room was carried out. In 2003, the embassy's premises were renovated and a new heating and cooling system was insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-George Crafoord
Carl-George "CG" Wilhelm Crafoord (3 September 1921 – 10 July 2006) was a Swedish diplomat. Career Crafoord was born on 3 September 1921 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of colonel Casa Crafoord and his wife Elsa (née Kumlin) and brother of the colonel John Crafoord and psychiatrist Clarence Crafoord. He passed his ''studentexamen'' in 1940 and served during his mandatory military service for a period during the years 1942 to 1943 at the legation in London as a cryptographist. Crafoord continued as cryptographist at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm during the remainder of the war, alongside his law studies. At age 22 in 1944, he was sent to Åland as deputy consul. Crafoord took a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1945 and became attache in June 1945 at the Foreign Ministry's press agency. Crafoord served in Washington, D.C. in 1946, Buenos Aires in 1948 and was second secretary in Buenos Aires in 1950. He also had a sojourn in Santiago as a member of Swede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Bagge (Swedish Diplomat)
Henry John Bagge (15 September 1896 – 27 April 1967) was an English professional footballer who made over 170 appearances in the Football League for Fulham as a wing half. He later managed Spanish clubs Athletic Bilbao, Salamanca and RB Linense. He was described as "a consistent player who feeds his forwards with discrimination". Personal life In December 1915, over a year after Britain's entry into the First World War, Bagge attested in the Royal Naval Air Service. He served as an Air Mechanic 2nd Class through the war and later in the Royal Air Force, before being transferred to the RAF Reserve The Regular Reserve is the component of the military reserve of the British Armed Forces whose members have formerly served in the " Regular" (full-time professional) forces. (Other components of the Reserve are the Volunteer Reserves and the Spon ... in March 1919. Career statistics References External links Harry Baggeat athletic-club.eus 1896 births 1967 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennart Finnmark
Tor ''Lennart'' Finnmark (18 January 1917 – 2 September 1993) was a Swedish diplomat. Early life Finnmark was born on 18 January 1917 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of Frithiof Finnmark, a pharmacist, and his wife Signe (née Lindberg). He passed his ''studentexamen'' in 1936 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1940. Finnmark became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1940. Career Finnmark served in Madrid in 1941, at the consulate general in London in 1942, at the embassy in London in 1943 and was acting second legation secretary in 1946. He served in Moscow in 1947 and was back serving at the Foreign Ministry in 1948 and then in Moscow again in 1948. Finnmark became extra first secretary in 1949. Finnmark then served at the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in Paris in 1949, was extraordinary first secretary in 1952 and extraordinary first secretary with embassy counsellor's position at the delegation of the Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Backlund (Swedish Diplomat)
Sven Backlund (1917–1997) was a Swedish diplomat. He was the ambassador of Sweden to Yugoslavia, European Communities and West Germany. He also served as the permanent representative of Sweden at the Council of Europe. Early life and education Backlund was born in 1917. His father who was also named as Sven was a social democratic figure and worked for the Gothenburg-based news magazine ''Ny Tid'' as a foreign editor in the 1940s. Backlund obtained his university degree in 1936. He founded the Social Democratic student club at Stockholm University. He received a master's degree in politics in 1942. Career and activities Following his graduation Backlund joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1942. He worked as an attaché at the Swedish embassies in the USA until 1946 and in the United Kingdom between 1946 and 1947. He was the secretary of legation in Norway from 1947 to 1949 and in the US from 1951 to 1955. Backlund was named as the head of the press office of the Ministry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Wedén
Sven Wedén (23 July 1913 – 31 March 1976) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish People's Party from 1967 to 1969. Wedén survived severe tuberculosis and became a businessman in the family company, a metal manufacturing firm. Wedén had no higher education but became a self-learned intellectual, starting with extensive reading during long sejours at tuberculosis hospitals. He was strongly pro-British and influenced by reading about British parliamentary life. Wedén also was passionately anti-Nazi and during World War II he joined the liberal party of Sweden, the People's Party, where he became city councillor, chairman of the youth organization and member of parliament. In parliament Wedén for many years worked with housing and defence policy, but over the years he became part of the small circle of leading liberals around Bertil Ohlin, and finally Ohlin's successor as chairman and parliamentary leader. However Wedén's health was now broken and afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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