Fredrik Bergenstråhle

Johan Fredrik Göstasson (Gson) Bergenstråhle (23 September 1926 – 10 February 2005) was a Swedish diplomat.

Early life Fredrik was born into the noble Bergenstråhle family in Stockholm, Sweden on 23 September 1926. His father, Colonel (1891–1978), was executive commander of the Life Regiment Hussars (1946–51). His mother, Greta Amelie Maria Löfgren (1899–1983), was the daughter of Court of Appeal clerk John Henrik Löfgren and Hildur Ellen Sigrid Kalling.

Bergenstråhle received a Candidate of Law degree from Stockholm University College in 1950.

He was ambassador in Baghdad from 1975 to 1979, consul-general in San Francisco from 1979 and 1980 and ambassador in Jeddah, Muscat and Sanaa from 1980 to 1984. Bergenstråhle was a negotiator at the Foreign Ministry in 1985 and then took leave from the Foreign Ministry to serve at Astra Pharmaceuticals International in England from 1986 to 1988. He was then ambassador in Bogotá from 1989 to 1991.

Personal life In 1956 he married Wilhelmina (Willy) de Weerd (born 1927), the daughter of director Gerrit Jan de Weerd and Jeanette Aleida (née Kloosterboer).