Johan Albert Nykopp (27 May 1906, Le Vésinet, France – 28 April 1993) was a long-time Finnish diplomat and vuorineuvos. Towards the end of the 1950s he entered the world of business first as the CEO of the Finnish Employers' Union and then as managing director of Oy

Tampella Oy Tampella Ab was a Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging. The company was based mainly in the Naistenlahti district of the city of ...

Ab from 1962 to 1972. Moscow negotiations paaskivi yrjokoskinen nykopp paasonen 1939

Career

Nykopp served for a long time diplomat in the 1930s in the Soviet Union, first as a delegation assistant in Moscow from 1931 to 1935, and later as a Finnish Consul to Leningrad from 1935 to 1937. In February–March 1939, Nykopp was a member of the Finnish trade delegation. In the autumn of 1939, he participated in the Moscow negotiations before the Winter War with J. K. Paasikivi as secretary to the Finnish delegation. After the war years, Nykopp served as deputy head of the Department for Trade Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1945 to 1947, and as head of division until 1951. Nykopp returned from the Moscow trade negotiations on February 24, 1950. He was replaced by

Uuno Takki Uuno Kristian Takki (12 April 1901, in Kotka – 15 September 1968) was a Finnish lawyer, cooperative manager and politician. He served as Minister of Trade and Industry from 22 May 1942 to 17 November 1944 and again from 26 March 1946 to 17 March ...

. In the 1950s he served as Finnish Envoy to the United States from 1951 to 1954, and was ambassador from 1954 to 1958. He was ambassador to Cuba from 1951 to 1958, to

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from 1954 to 1958, to Venezuela from 1954 to 1958, and to Mexico from 1951 to 1958. He died in Helsinki, aged 86.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nykopp, Johan Ambassadors of Finland to the United States Ambassadors of Finland to Cuba Ambassadors of Finland to Colombia Ambassadors of Finland to Venezuela Ambassadors of Finland to Mexico Finnish business executives 1993 deaths 1906 births