Per Anger

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Commemorative plaque on the site of the former Swedish embassy in Budapest, in honor of Carl-Ivan Danielsson, Raoul Wallenberg and Per Anger

Per Johan Valentin Anger (born December 7, 1913 in Gothenburg , † August 25, 2002 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish diplomat . As an employee of Raoul Wallenberg , he saved numerous Hungarian Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust .

Life

Per Anger was born in Gothenburg in 1913. He completed his law studies at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in November 1939. In January 1940 he received an internship at the Swedish legation in Berlin. After the Swedish Foreign Ministry received reports of an impending German attack on Norway and Denmark, Anger was tasked with sending classified information to Stockholm. In June 1941 he returned to Stockholm, where he dealt with trade relations between Sweden and Hungary . In November 1942 he was sent to Budapest as the second secretary of the Swedish legation.

Immediately after the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, Anger took part in the rescue of Hungarian Jews. 700 provisional Swedish passports and ID cards were initially issued to protect the Jews from internment and deportation to the extermination camps . When Raoul Wallenberg arrived in the Hungarian capital in July 1944, he immediately expanded Anger's efforts, issued protective passports and built over 30 protective houses throughout Budapest. After the Soviet invasion of Budapest in January 1945, Anger and Wallenberg were arrested. Anger was released after three months, but Wallenberg's fate remained uncertain.

After the end of the war, Anger performed numerous diplomatic functions in Egypt , Ethiopia , France , Austria and the USA . He then became head of the Swedish international aid program and was ambassador to Australia , Canada and the Bahamas . During this time he made repeated attempts to find out something about Wallenberg's whereabouts, and for this purpose met in 1989 with the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev . His autobiographical report Med Raoul Wallenberg i Budapest (first edition 1979) was published several times and translated into numerous languages. He died on August 26, 2002 in Stockholm as a result of a fall in his apartment.

The Swedish Forum för levande historia has been awarding the Per Anger Prize annually since 2004 to people who exemplify democracy and human rights.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/general/man-partnered-wallenberg/
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  3. ↑ Per Anger on the Yad Vashem website

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personal data
SURNAME Anger, Per
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anger, Per Johan Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2002
Place of death Stockholm