Peter Martin Anker

Peter Martin Anker (21 March 1903 – 7 January 1977) was a Norwegian diplomat. He worked for the League of Nations, Red Cross and United Nations before, during and after the Second World War. He was then an ambassador in European, Asian and African countries from 1951 to 1973. He was stationed in six countries, but with side responsibilities for other countries, he was an ambassador in fifteen countries during his career (with Austria counted twice).

Personal life He was a son of physician Peter Martin Anker (1872–1903) and Marie Reimers (1871–1958), a member of the Anker family. He was a great-grandson of Peter Martin Anker, grandson of Herman Anker, nephew of Katti Anker Møller (and her husband Kai Møller) and Ella Anker, grandnephew of Nils Anker, Christian August Anker and Dikka Møller, first cousin of Øyvind Anker, Synnøve Anker Aurdal and Tove Mohr, and uncle of Peter Martin Anker. being hired as a secretary in 1931. He was a secretary in the observatory commission in Alexandrette from 1936 to 1937, He worked in the United Nations from 1946 to 1948, He became ambassador to Greece in 1960 The position also covered Iraq, and from 1965 Kuwait. From 1966 to 1973 he was the ambassador to Egypt/the United Arab Republic. The position also covered Sudan and Ethiopia from 1967, Lebanon from 1968 and Jordan from 1969.

He died in 1977 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.