Albert Ehrensvärd the Younger

Johan Jakob Albert Ehrensvärd (9 May 1867 – 6 March 1940) was a Swedish diplomat. He was Sweden's envoy to Washington D.C between 1910 and 1911. He became Sweden's Foreign Minister in Liberal leader and Prime Minister Karl Staaff's Second Cabinet. As Foreign Minister of Sweden he instituted reforms in the Swedish Foreign Service and worked to ease tensed relations with Czarist Russia.

Early life and education Ehrensvärd was born on 9 May 1867 in Gothenburg, Sweden. His father was the politician and civil servant Count (1821–1901), who served as minister for foreign affairs from 1885 to 1889. His mother, Ingeborg Hedvig Vogt (1825–1904), was the daughter of Norwegian government minister Jørgen Herman Vogt and Countess Hedvig Lovisa Frölich, and she served as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Josephine. He had four siblings: Admiral Carl August Ehrensvärd (1867–1940), Henriette Eleonore Ingeborg Ehrensvärd (born 1853), Anna Louise Dorotée (born 1855), and Augustine Sofia Amalia (1862–1944). His paternal grandfather was Colonel of the Scanian Dragoon Regiment, and his great-grandfather was Count Carl August Ehrensvärd, a naval officer, art theorist, artist, and architect.

Ehrensvärd completed his school-leaving examination on 27 May 1884 and enrolled at Lund University the same year. He earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree on 31 May 1887, a Candidate of Law degree on 31 January 1891, and a Licentiate of Law degree in Lund on 24 May 1895. On 31 May 1895, he was awarded a Doctor of Law degree.

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Foreign

French Academy Medal

Honorary degrees Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala University (16 September 1927) Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg (1934) Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Poitiers (1934)