Dag Hammarskjöld

{{Audio|sv-Dag_Hammarskjöld.ogg|Dag Hammarskjöld}} (full name Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld) (July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in an plane crash in September of 1961.

Early life

Dag Hammarskjöld (generally pronounced HAM-mer-shold in English) was born in Jönköping, in Sweden, although he lived most of childhood in Uppsala. He was the fourth and youngest son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Prime Minister of Sweden (1914–1917), and Agnes Almquist. His ancestors had served the Swedish Crown since the 17th century. He studied at Uppsala University where he graduated with a Master's degree in political economy and a Bachelor of Law degree. He then moved to Stockholm.

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Jönköping - Sweden - Uppsala - Hjalmar Hammarskjöld - Prime Minister of Sweden - 1914 - 1917 - Crown - Uppsala University - Master's degree - Political economy - Bachelor of Law - Stockholm

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In 1930–1934 he was a secretary of a governmental committee on unemployment. He also wrote his economics thesis Konjunkturspridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle) and received his Doctorate from Stockholm University in 1933. In 1936 Hammarskjöld became a secretary in the Bank of Sweden and soon he was a undersecretary of finance. In 1941–1948 he served as a chairman of the Bank of Sweden.

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1930 - 1934 - Unemployment - Doctorate - Stockholm University - 1933 - 1936 - Bank of Sweden - 1941 - 1948

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Early in 1945, he was appointed an adviser to the cabinet on financial and economic problems, and coordinated, for example, government plans to alleviate the economic problems of the post-war period.

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In 1947 Hammarskjöld was appointed to Sweden's Foreign Office, and in 1949 he became the Secretary General of the Foreign Office. He was a delegate in the Paris conference that established the Marshall Plan. In 1948 he was again in Paris to attend conference for the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. In 1950 he became a head of Sweden delegation to UNISCAN. In 1951, he became a cabinet minister without portfolio and in effect Deputy Foreign Minister. Although Hammarskjöld served with a cabinet dominated by the Social Democrats, he never officially joined any political party. On December 20 1954 he was elected to take his father's vacated seat in the Swedish Academy. In 1951 Hammarskjöld became vice chairman of Swedish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris. He became the chairman of the General Assembly in 1952 in New York.

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1947 - Sweden's Foreign Office - 1949 - Secretary General of the Foreign Office - Marshall Plan - 1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation - 1950 - UNISCAN - 1951 - Minister without portfolio - Social Democrats - 1954 - Swedish Academy - United Nations General Assembly - 1952

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