Nina Viveka Maria Lagergren (néevon Dardel; 3 March 1921 – 5 April 2019) was a Swedish businesswoman and the half-sister of
Swedish Radio. She was the mother-in-law of Kofi Annan
.
Work
Nina Lagergren was the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy, which she ran along with her parents Fredrik Elias August von Dardel and Maria Sofia "Maj" Wising and her brother Guy von Dardel.[1][2] In 2000, Lagergren was awarded the Wallenberg Medal, which was presented to her by the University of Michigan.[3][4]
Lagergren was the presenter of an episode of
Sommar i P1 at Sveriges Radio on 4 August 2014 where she told about her life and her work to find out what had happened to her half-brother.[5]
On 8 March 1945, Soviet-controlled Hungarian radio announced that Wallenberg and his driver had been murdered on their way to Debrecen, suggesting that they had been killed by the Arrow Cross Party or the
Some former prisoners claimed to have seen Wallenberg after his reported death in 1947.[11] In February 1949, former German Colonel Theodor von Dufving, a prisoner of war, provided statements concerning Wallenberg. While in the transit camp in Kirov, while being moved to Vorkuta, Dufving encountered a prisoner dressed in civilian clothes with his own special guard. The prisoner claimed that he was a Swedish diplomat and said he was there "through a great error".[12] Lagergren continued to work with this information throughout her life, searching for details about his fate.[13] In October 2016, Wallenberg was declared dead by Sweden's Tax Agency.[14]