Eric Einar Ekstrand
Eric Einar Ekstrand (born December 22, 1880 in Nyköping ; † August 24, 1958 ) was a Swedish ambassador.
Life
Eric Einar Ekstrand was a son of Amanda Lundquist and Conrad Ekstrand, a high school teacher. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University in 1904 and studied at Mons University from 1906 to 1907 , where he received his doctorate in law .
In 1907 he joined the foreign service and was attaché in Hamburg , Narva and Riga until 1910 . In 1913 he was employed as Deputy Consul General in Saint Petersburg and as Consul in Riga and then from 1916 in Chicago . A year later he headed a department in the State Department, took over the Commerce department in 1918 and was also a Counselor in Washington, DC
From 1919 to 1922 he was Vice President of Stockholms Superfosfat Fabriks AB and in 1921/1922 he led an aid expedition of the Swedish Red Cross to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . In the meantime Ekstrand was promoted to Consul General in 1921 and headed the personnel department of the Swedish Foreign Ministry.
From 1923 he was accepted as a member of the Committee of the League of Nations for the population exchange between Greece and Turkey after the catastrophe in Asia Minor and one year later he was appointed High Commissioner of the League of Nations for the protection of the Albanian minority in Greece.
From 1925 to 1931 Ekstrand was Envoy Extraordinary in Buenos Aires and accredited to the governments of Santiago de Chile, Montevideo and Asunción. In 1929 and 1930 he examined the effects of the Convention internationale de l'opium (of February 19, 1925 in Geneva) in the Far East. From 1931 to 1939 he then headed the Comité central permanent de l'opium (CCPO) (Opium Secretariat) of the League of Nations in Geneva and was admitted to the League of Nations Refugee Committee in 1940.
During the winter war from 1939 to 1940 Ekstrand was chairman of Central Finland Aid , which evacuated children from eastern Finland to Sweden. After the Second World War , from 1947 to 1953 he became a member of the United Nations Sub-Commissiion on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities (UN Committee for the Protection of Minorities).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelika Schaser, Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer : a political community, p. 287
- ^ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , Nekrolog
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Hultgren |
Swedish ambassador to Argentina from 1925 to 1931 |
Christian Günther |
| Carl Hultgren |
Swedish Ambassador to Santiago de Chile 1925 to 1931 |
Axel Johan Anders Paulin |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ekstrand, Eric Einar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nykoping |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1958 |
| Place of death | Nykoping |