Dag Bryn

Dag Ramsøy Bryn (born March 17, 1909 in Christiania , † April 11, 1991 in Tvedestrand ) was a Norwegian psychologist , politician ( Arbeiderpartiet ) and diplomat .

Life

Bryn, whose father ran the seaman's school in Bergen , grew up in Christiania (now Oslo) and Bergen. After graduating from high school in 1927, he began studying psychology , which he completed in 1932. In the same year he worked out a study plan for the academic subject psychology, followed in 1934 by the publication of his book Tidens psykologi i grunndrag (The basic principles of current psychology), which was the translation and adaptation of a work by William McDougall . From 1935 to 1941 he worked as a career counselor in the Oslo employment office. He then served in the Norwegian Armed Forces in Great Britain.

After the war he first became the personal secretary of the Norwegian Defense Minister Jens Christian Hauge , and in 1947 he was appointed State Secretary . Like Hauge, Bryn insisted on abandoning the Norwegian policy of neutrality ; he recommended his country's participation in NATO . From 1950 onwards he worked as deputy to the Norwegian Foreign Minister in the North Atlantic Council . From 1952 Bryn was the first Norwegian envoy in Bonn . Here he advocated full membership of the Federal Republic of Germany in NATO even against French reservations.

After Bryn was appointed State Secretary in the Oslo Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1954 , he continued to campaign for a strong Western orientation and integration of his country. Among other things, he advocated the stationing of US nuclear weapons in Norway. In January 1958 he was appointed Norway's ambassador to Yugoslavia , a country that was in international focus due to its criticism of the policies of the Soviet Union. In 1963 he left Belgrade to move to Bern , where he headed the embassy of his country for two years. After a three-year period as an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1965–1968), he was ambassador to Morocco until 1971 .

Awards

• 1955: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1959: Commander of the Order of Saint Olav

literature

• Tormod Petter Svennevig, Dag Bryn . - In: Norsk Biografisk Leksikon .
• Jürgen Elvert, The Integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into the Western Security Community in the Judgment of the Scandinavian States (1950-1955). - In: Guido Müller (ed.), Germany and the West. Festschrift for Klaus Schwabe on his 65th birthday . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 227-246.