Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, 1905 - 1961
from the United Nations Association of Sweden
Born: 29 July 1905, Jönköping, Sweden
Died: 18 September 1961, Ndola, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Raised at Uppsala in a family that had worked for the Swedish crown since the 17th century, his father was Prime Minister 1914-1917. Earned a Bachelor of Law and a Master's in political economy at Uppsala University. He served on a national committee on economics while he earned his doctorate in economics at Stockholm University. Worked at the Bank of Sweden, then was undersecretary of finance before returning to the bank as it's chairman. While at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs he was Sweden's delegate to the conferences that established the Marshall Plan and the Organization for European Economic Co-operation. Despite never joining a political party he was minister without portfolio in the cabinet, effectively Deputy Foreign Minister, and part of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations. When the first UN Secretary General resigned in 1953 he was surprised by the Security Council's nomination and strong support for his taking that position, which he won, followed by unanimous reelection in 1957. He may have been the most active all the secretaries general. During his third trip to the Congo to negotiate peace in Katanga Province his plane went down. He was the only secretary general to die in office, and his 1961 Nobel Peace Prize is the only time a Nobel has been awarded posthumously.
Biography from Wikipedia and daghammarskjold.se
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- A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles one to assume responsibility. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Bless your uneasiness as a sign that there is still life within you. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Friendship needs no words. It is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - I never discuss discussions. permalink
Dag Hammarskjold - If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. permalink
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