Ole Ålgård (9 September 1921 – 26 January 1995) was a Norwegian diplomat.

Early life

He was born in

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as a son of farmer and petty officer Gabriel Aalgaard (1881–1973) and Berta Serine Egeland (1895–1983). He

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his secondary education at Stavanger Cathedral School in and graduated with the

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degree from the

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in 1946. He chaired ''Sosialistisk studentlag'' in 1946, and was hired as a secretary in the

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in the same year. He worked two years in

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before returning to Norway in 1950. In November 1947 he married Rigmor Braathe.

Later career

From 1951 to 1956 he was a legation secretary in

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, changing to chargé d'affaires as Norway got an embassy in the country. He mainly worked in Norway from 1956 to 1961, as an embassy counsellor at the Norwegian

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embassy from 1961 to 1964, and as embassy counsellor in the

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from 1965 to 1967. He was Norway's ambassador to the

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from 1967 to 1971 and to the United Nations from 1971 to 1982. He was the

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in April 1979 and June 1980. He was the ambassador to

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from 1982 to 1989. He chaired the Norwegian Atlantic Committee. He settled at his wife's family farm in Våler, Viken in 1989, where he died in January 1995. He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1978, and held the Grand Cross of the

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. He was a Knight of the Belgian Order of Leopold and the

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, and held the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Algard, Ole 1921 births 1995 deaths People from Gjesdal University of Oslo alumni Norwegian civil servants Permanent Representatives of Norway to the United Nations Ambassadors of Norway to China Ambassadors of Norway to Denmark Norwegian expatriates in the Soviet Union Norwegian expatriates in Austria Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian expatriates in Belgium Grand Crosses of the Order of the Dannebrog Knights of the Order of the Lion of Finland