Åke Hammarskjöld

Åke Vilhelm Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (born  April 10, 1893 in Uppsala , †  July 7, 1937 in The Hague ) was a Swedish lawyer and diplomat . From 1922 to 1936 he served as a senior records clerk and then as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice until his untimely death .

Life

Åke Hammarskjöld was born in Uppsala in 1893 and began a career in the diplomatic service in his home country after studying at the university there . During the First World War he was a member of a commission of the Swedish government, which worked out the basis for Sweden's participation in the legal shaping of the post-war order. After the end of the war, he acted as secretary of the delegation from his home country to the Paris Peace Conference . From 1920 he worked in the secretariat of the newly formed League of Nations in the drafting of the statutes of the Permanent International Court of Justice (StIGH) as well as in the administration of the ratifications of the protocol for the establishment of the court and in the organization of the first judges' elections.

At the beginning of 1922, the Secretary General of the League of Nations first appointed him Secretary of the Court, with the beginning of the work of the PCIJ in the same year he became a short time later to its conductive certificate officials elected (Registrar) and reelected in 1929th A year later he was appointed envoy extraordinary of Sweden ( Envoy extraordinary ) and ministre plénipotentiaire . In 1936 he taught as a lecturer at the Hague Academy for International Law . On October 8 of the same year he was elected Judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice. However, he died just nine months later at the age of 44 in The Hague and only attended hearings on one case during that time.

His father Hjalmar Hammarskjöld was Swedish Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917 , while his brother Dag Hammarskjöld served as the second Secretary General in the history of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961 .

Awards

Åke Hammarskjöld belonged to the Institut de Droit international from 1925 . The University of Bern and Stockholm University awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Works (selection)

• Some Facts About the World Court. New York 1927
• La Cour permanente de justice international à la neuvième session de l'assemblée de la Société des Nations. Brussels 1928
• La Protection des populations civils contre les bombardments. Geneva 1930 (as co-author)
• Juridiction international. Précédé d'une étude sur l'auteur. Leiden 1938

literature

• Biographical Notes concerning Members of the Court. M. Åke Hammarskjöld, Member of the Court. In: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1937, pp. 25-26
• Manley Ottmer Hudson : In memoriam: Åke Hammarskjold. In: American Journal of International Law . 31 (4 )/1937. American Society of International Law, pp. 703-704, ISSN  0002-9300
• Max Huber : Åke Hammarskjöld in Memoriam. In: Nordisk Tidsskrift for International Ret. 8 (1) / 1937. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 133-137, ISSN  0029-151X