Alexis Aminoff

Gregor Iwan Alexis Feodor Aminoff (4 April 1897 – 26 April 1977) was a Swedish diplomat and chamberlain.

Career

Aminoff was born in Stockholm, Sweden, son of the cabinet chamberlain Gregor Aminoff and his wife Elisabeth (née af Edholm). He was ryttmästare in the Life Regiment of Horse (Livregementet till häst, K 1) in 1934 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1926. Aminoff left in 1928 and then worked in private companies. He served as chamberlain of the Duke and Duchess of Västergotland from 1935 to 1950, and he was back at the Foreign Ministry in 1938.[1]

Aminoff became first secretary in 1939, first legation secretary in London in 1941, in Washington, D.C. in 1943, and was legation counsellor there in 1943. He was envoy in Athens from 1949 to 1951 and foreign affairs councillor and head of the human resources department at the Foreign Ministry from 1951 to 1954. Aminoff was then envoy in Pretoria from 1954 to 1959, ambassador in Lisbon from 1959 to 1963 and ambassador in Monrovia from 1959 to 1961 (accredited from Lisbon). He was Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (Introduktör av främmande sändebud) from 1970 to 1974 (deputy in 1966) and Grand Master of the Ceremonies from 1971 to 1977.[1]

Personal life

In 1925 he married Märtha Linder (1900–1991),[2] the daughter of general Ernst Linder and baroness Augusta (née Wrangel von Brehmer). He was the father of Gregor (born 1926) and Alexandra (born 1933).[3] He died on 26 April 1977 in Stockholm and was buried at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.[2]

Awards and decorations
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gollark: I don't *agree* with religious evangelism, I'm saying that it does not seem inconsistent with "true Catholicism" as qh4os says.
gollark: How? Consistently, if you believe that people not believing your thing will go to hell, and hell is bad, you should probably tell them. I'm not sure exactly what Catholic doctrine wrt. that *is* though, I think it varies.
gollark: And our experiments with understanding the underlying ethical particles have been halted after it transpired that colliding ethical entities at 99.99% of *c* actually had ethical associations itself, which caused bad interference.
gollark: Experimental moral philosophy has ethical issues, unfortunately.

References
  1. Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1977 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1977] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1976. p. 28. ISBN 91-1-766022-X.
  2. "Personakt". www.martinbergman.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. 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. 39.
  4. Sveriges statskalender för året 1955 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1955. p. 70.
  5. Sveriges statskalender. 1963 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1963. p. 308.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Knut Richard Thyberg		 Envoy of Sweden to Greece
1949–1951		 Succeeded by
Tage Grönwall
Preceded by
Carl Olof Gisle		 Envoy of Sweden to South Africa
1954–1959		 Succeeded by
Eyvind Bratt
Preceded by
Knut Richard Thyberg		 Ambassador of Sweden to Portugal
1959–1963		 Succeeded by
Gunnar Dryselius
Preceded by
Knut Richard Thyberg		 Ambassador of Sweden to Liberia
1959–1961		 Succeeded by
Torsten Brandel
Court offices
Preceded by
Joen Lagerberg		 Grand Master of Ceremonies
1971–1977		 Succeeded by
Tore Tallroth
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