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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] |
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] |
Erik Boheman
Erik Carlsson Boheman (19 January 1895 – 18 September 1979), was a Sweden, Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party (Sweden), Liberal People's Party.Boheman, Erik Cson in ''Vem är det'', 1977 editionErik C:son Boheman biographical entry in ''Nationalencyklopedin'', retrieved 8 June 2013 Early life and education Boheman was born in Stockholm, the son of Ellen Gustava (née Abramson) and Carl Helmar Boheman. His paternal grandfather was entomologist Carl Henrik Boheman. His nephew was actor Erland Josephson. His mother was Jewish. Boheman studied at the Stockholm University College and graduated in 1918 with a Master of Laws degree. Biography |
Ivar Öhman (1914-1989)
Oscar ''Ivar'' Öhman (19 January 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a Swedish journalist and diplomat. He served as Ambassador of Sweden to Greece from 1976 to 1980. Early life Öhman was born on 19 January 1914 in Timrå, Sweden, the son of Oscar Öhman, an editor, and his wife Elvira (née Näslund). Career Öhman was a contributor to ''Norrlands-Kuriren'' from 1931 to 1934 and published ''Unga Röster'' between 1932 and 1934. He was editorial secretary at ''Folket i Bild'' in 1934 and editor-in-chief there from 1946 to 1962, and for ''Utflykt'' in 1962. Öhman served as a press attaché at the Swedish embassy in Oslo with position as counsellor in 1963 and as press counsellor in 1970. He served as ambassador in Athens from 1976 to 1980. Personal life and death In 1940, Öhman married Ingrid Rollvén (born 1915), the daughter of Hjalmar Rollvén and Ester (née Trolin). In 1952, he married Birgit Koch (born 1924), the daughter of Rolf Koch and Sally (née Trolin). Öhman died on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Dag Bergman
Dag Erik Bergman (23 October 1914 – 10 December 1984) was a Swedish diplomat. Biography Bergman was the son of Erik Bergman, a parish minister, and his wife Karin Bergman, née Åkerblom, and the older brother of film director Ingmar Bergman and novelist Margareta Bergman. According to Karin Lannby, Bergman was employed by the intelligence organization C-byrån and was part of the Swedish Volunteer Corps during the Winter War in Finland and active in the National League of Sweden. Bergman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Uppsala University in 1938 and a Candidate of Law degree from Stockholm University in 1944 before he became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1945. He was first secretary in Athens in 1963, embassy counsellor in 1970 (acting in 1965) and ambassador from 1972 to 1973. Bergman was then consul general in Hong Kong from 1973 to 1980. Bergman was from the 1960s seriously ill, paralyzed by polio Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gösta Brunnström
Gösta Greger Stig Fabian Brunnström (4 March 1907 – 11 June 1989) was a Swedish diplomat. Early life Brunnström was born on 4 March 1907 in Helsingborg, Sweden, the son of director Fabian Brunnström and his wife Hildur (née Banck). He was commissioned as an officer in 1929 and was lieutenant in the Scanian Cavalry Regiment (K 2) reserve from 1932 to 1946. Brunnström received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932 and Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1936 before he became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1936. Career Brunnström served at the consulate-general in Calcutta in 1937, was the acting consul general there in 1938, attaché in Paris in 1939, Oslo in 1940 and was second legation secretary in Washington, D.C. in 1941. He was the acting chargé d'affaires in Mexico City in 1942, legation secretary in Rio de Janeiro in 1943 and in Buenos Aires in 1944 and the first secretary at the Foreign Ministry in 1944. Brunnström was then director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Stackelberg
Count Fritz Carl Louis Stackelberg (31 May 1899 – 18 November 1988) was a Swedish diplomat. He served as a Swedish envoy in Venezuela (1948–1953) with dual accreditation to a number of countries in the Caribbean, as well as ambassador to Greece (1956–1962) and Switzerland (1962–1965). Early life Stackelberg was born on 31 May 1899 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of ''ryttmästare'', count Adolf Stackelberg (1850–1906) and countess Charlotte Lewenhaupt (born 1861). He passed ''studentexamen'' in Linköping in 1917. Career Stackelberg attended the Military Academy Karlberg, Royal Military Academy in Stockholm in 1919 and served as a second lieutenant in the Svea Artillery Regiment (A 1) from 1920 to 1922. Stackelberg received a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1925 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Ministry for Foreign Affairs the year after. He served in Copenhagen, Bern, London, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade from 1926 to 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tage Grönwall
Tage Holm Fredrik Grönwall (7 February 1903 – 6 March 1988) was a Swedish diplomat. Career Grönwall was born on 7 February 1903 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of consul general Fredrik Grönwall and his wife Anna (née Holm). He passed his ''studentexamen'' in Djursholm in 1921 and earned a Candidate of Law degree from Stockholm University College in 1927. Grönwall did his clerkship in Linde Judicial District from 1928 to 1930 before he became attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1930. Grönwall served in Paris in 1931, London in 1932, Dublin in 1933 and in Vienna, Belgrade and Budapest in 1934. He was the acting first secretary at the Foreign Ministry in 1937 (acting second secretary in 1934), acting first secretary of legation in London from 1939 and 1940, acting director at the Foreign Ministry in 1943 and mission counsellor in Rome from 1947 to 1951. Grönwall was envoy in Athens from 1951 to 1956, envoy in Tokyo from 1956 to 1957 and ambassador in Tokyo from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Aminoff
Gregor Iwan Alexis Feodor Aminoff (4 April 1897 – 26 April 1977) was a Swedish diplomat and chamberlain. Career Aminoff was born on 4 April 1897 in Stockholm, Sweden, son of the cabinet chamberlain Gregor Aminoff and his wife Elisabeth (née af Edholm). He was ''ryttmästare'' in the Life Regiment of Horse (K 1) in 1934 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1926. Aminoff left in 1928 and then worked in private companies. He served as chamberlain of the Duke and Duchess of Västergotland from 1935 to 1950, and he was back at the Foreign Ministry in 1938. Aminoff became first secretary in 1939, first legation secretary in London in 1941, in Washington, D.C. in 1943, and was legation counsellor there in 1943. He was envoy in Athens from 1949 to 1951 and foreign affairs councillor and head of the human resources department at the Foreign Ministry from 1951 to 1954. Aminoff was then envoy in Pretoria from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Richard Thyberg
Knut Richard Thyberg (6 November 1896 – 1 April 1980) was a Swedish diplomat. He was Swedish envoy in Rio de Janeiro from 1949 to 1955, and ambassador in Lisbon from 1955 to 1959 and non-resident ambassador in Monrovia from 1958 to 1959. Early life Thyberg was born on 6 November 1896 in Sunne, Sweden, the son of Edwin Thyberg, a merchant, and his wife Thyra (née Helin). He passed ''studentexamen'' in Karlstad in 1914 and became a reserve officer two years later in 1916. In 1918 he received a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm and started working as an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm the year after. Career Thyberg served in Paris in 1920, London in 1921, Antwerp in 1923 and in New York City in 1923. He was acting administrative officer in 1926 and second legation secretary in Riga with dual accreditation in 1928. He then served in London in 1929, Copenhagen in 1931 and was acting chargé d'affaires in Prague in 1931. Thyberg served as first legat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Modig
Einar Modig (28 November 1883 – 10 March 1960) was a Swedish diplomat. After graduating from Uppsala University in 1907, Moding joined the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He served eight years in South America as envoy in various country and during World War II, Moding served as Swedish envoy in Ankara and Athens. After the war, he served as envoy in Brussels and Luxembourg City. Early life Modig was born on 28 November 1883 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Otto Walfrid Modig, an accountant, and his wife Maria Fredrika Lovisa Landgren. He passed ''Studentexamen, mogenhetsexamen'' at Nya Elementarskolan in Stockholm on 15 May 1901 and enrolled at Uppsala University the same year. Modig received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Uppsala University in 1903, a Licentiate (degree)#Finland and Sweden, Licentiate of Philosophy degree in 1905 and a Candidate of Law degree in 1907 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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