Dick Hichens-Bergström

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Dick Hichens-Bergström
Born
Per Richard Hichens-Bergström

(1913-08-13) 13 August 1913 (age 110)
Stockholm, Sweden
Died9 May 1989(1989-05-09) (aged 75)
Nice, France
OccupationDiplomat
Spouses
Ingrid Bredenberg
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(m. 1940; divored 1961)​
Marianne Höök
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(m. 1961; died 1970)​
Ann Angell-Sandnes
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(m. 1972)​
Children2

Per Richard "Dick" Hichens-Bergström (13 August 1913 – 9 May 1989) was a Swedish diplomat.

Early life and family

Hichens-Bergström was born on 13 August 1913 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of the high councillor Richard Bergström [sv] and his wife Jenny (née Glimstedt). He was the brother of the opera singer Margareta Bergström-Kärde [sv]. His grandfather was the folklorist Richard Bergström [sv],[1] and grandfather was court justice Peter Olof Glimstedt [sv]. Per Glimstedt [sv; fi] was his uncle.

Career

Hichens-Bergström received a

Södersysslets judicial district from 1937 to 1938.[2] In 1938 he became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and served in San Francisco in 1939, and the year after that in Washington, D.C. where he became legation secretary in 1943. In 1944 Hichens-Bergström became second secretary at the Foreign Ministry, first secretary in 1946, first embassy secretary in Paris in 1948, Bern in 1949, Moscow in 1951 and was acting embassy counsellor there in 1952. He was director at the Foreign Ministry from 1953 to 1956 and deputy head of the political department from 1956 to 1959. He was ambassador in Tehran and Baghdad from 1959 to 1963 and in Kabul from 1960 to 1963. Hichens-Bergström was head of the political department at the Foreign Ministry from 1964 to 1967, envoy in Oslo from 1968 to 1973 as well as in Rome and Valletta from 1973 to 1979.[3]

He had a special assignment for the

Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1948. He had various missions in Geneva in 1950, 1951, 1954–58 and was the secretary and adviser at the Nordic Foreign Ministers Meetings 1953–56 and 1964–67. During 1953–59 he was a teacher at the Swedish Defence University. Hichens-Bergström was representative of the United Nations General Assembly from 1964 to 1967, an adviser in the 1965 defense investigation, a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matter from 1965 to 1967, chairman of the Swedish delegation at the European Security Conference in Geneva from 1973 to 1974 and was permanent representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization from 1975 to 1979. Hichens-Bergström also had several consulting assignments for the Swedish industry.[3]

Personal life

He was married 1940–61[4] to Ingrid Bredenberg (1914–2013). In 1961 he married the journalist Marianne Höök [sv] (1919–1970) and in 1972 he married Ann Angell-Sandnes.[3] In his first marriage he had the children, Maud (born 1947) and the writer Richard Hichens-Bergström [sv] (born 1948).[2]

Death

Hichens-Bergstrom died on 9 May 1989 and was buried on 5 June the same year at

Solna Municipality.[5]

Awards

References

  1. SELIBR 12566308
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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Harnesk, Paul, ed. (1962). Vem är vem? 1, Stor-Stockholm [Who is who? 1, Greater Stockholm] (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Vem är vem. p. 129.
  3. ^
    ISBN 91-1-843222-0
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  4. SELIBR 12076919
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  5. ^ "Norra begravningsplatsen, kvarter 08A, gravnummer 68" (in Swedish). Hittagraven.se. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Tildelinger av ordener og medaljer" [Awards of medals and medals] (in Norwegian). Royal Court of Norway. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  7. ^ "ORÐUHAFASKRÁ" (in Icelandic). President of Iceland. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Iran
1959–1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Iraq
1959–1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Afghanistan
1960–1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Norway
1968–1973 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Italy
1973–1979 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Malta
1973–1979 		Succeeded by
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