Hans Erland Oskar Colliander (18 April 1924 – 18 October 2013), was a Swedish diplomat.

Career

Colliander was born in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

, Sweden, the son of senior librarian Elof Colliander and his wife Harriet (née Lejdström). He received a

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degree from

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in 1946 and a diploma from the

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with ...

in 1949 before he took up employment at

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in 1949. Colliander became an attaché at the

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in 1950 and served in

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and

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1952–57. He then served at the Foreign Ministry from 1957 to 1961, in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

1961–65 and again at the Foreign Ministry 1965–69. Colliander was then counsellor in the Swedish delegation in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

1969–76, director of the Swedish

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delegation in

1976–85 and Swedish ambassador in

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from 1985 to 1989. He was representative and chairman of the trade and aviation negotiations with various countries and was the chairman of the OECD Steel Commission 1980–85, and again from 1989. Colliander was also a consultant at the Federation of Swedish Industries (''Sveriges Industriförbund'') from 1990. Colliander was a board member of the Association for Friends of the Swedish Athens Institute.

Personal life

Colliander was married 1950–74 to Kerstin Fredriksson (born 1923). He was then married to Hilda Marti. Colliander died in 2013 and was buried in

Norra begravningsplatsen Norra begravningsplatsen, literally "The Northern Cemetery" in Swedish, is a major cemetery of the Stockholm urban area, located in Solna Municipality. Inaugurated on 9 June 1827, it is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables. Nota ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colliander, Hans 1924 births 2013 deaths Ambassadors of Sweden to Greece People from Uppsala Uppsala University alumni Stockholm School of Economics alumni Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen Swedish expatriates in the United States Swedish expatriates in France Swedish expatriates in the Soviet Union Swedish expatriates in Switzerland