Alexis Aminoff

Alexis Aminoff
Born
Gregor Iwan Alexis Feodor Aminoff

(1897-04-04)4 April 1897
Stockholm, Sweden
Died26 April 1977(1977-04-26) (aged 80)
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationDiplomat
Years active1926–1977
Spouse
Märtha Linder
​
(m. 1925)​
Children2
RelativesErnst Linder (father-in-law)

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

Early life

Born into the noble Aminoff family on 4 April 1897 in Stockholm, Sweden, he was the son of Cabinet Chamberlain Gregor Aminoff [sv] (1872–1934) and his wife Elisabeth (née af Edholm).[1] He had two siblings, including the courtier Georg Aminoff [sv] (1895–1977). His grandfather was the officer Ivan Feodor Aminoff [sv] (1797–1855).

Aminoff passed studentexamen in Stockholm on 15 May 1915.[2] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925.[1]

Career

Military career

Aminoff began his military career as an officer cadet in the Life Guards of Horse on 10 October 1915, and enrolled at Military Academy Karlberg the same year. He graduated from the Military Academy on 19 December 1917 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Life Guards of Horse on 31 December 1917. He resigned in 1919 with permission to join the regiment's reserve as a second lieutenant on 29 August 1919 and was promoted to underlöjtnant in the reserve on 31 December 1919. He became a full lieutenant on 30 November 1922 and was appointed ryttmästare in 1934.[2][1]

Diplomatic career

Aminoff became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm 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).[1]

In August 1960, during Aminoff's tenure as ambassador in Lisbon, he was asked by UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld to act as an impartial mediator in the Buraimi dispute between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.[3]

Aminoff served as 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, Aminoff married Märtha Linder (1900–1991),[4] 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).[5]

Death

Aminoff died on 26 April 1977 in Oscar Parish in Stockholm, Sweden. He was interred on 20 June 1977 at the Aminoff family grave at Norra begravningsplatsen in Solna.[6]

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Foreign

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f 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. SELIBR 3681523.
  2. ^ a b Elgenstierna, Gustaf, ed. (1925). Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor (in Swedish). Vol. 1 Abrahamsson-Celsing. Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 76. SELIBR 10076137.
  3. ^ "Svensk vald som medlare i svår tvist" [Swede chosen as mediator in difficult dispute]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). London. 21 August 1960. p. 8A. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Personakt". www.martinbergman.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  5. ^ a b Harnesk, Paul, ed. (1962). Vem är vem? [Who's Who?] (in Swedish). Vol. 1, Stor–Stockholm (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Vem är vem bokförlag. p. 39. SELIBR 53509.
  6. ^ "Aminoff, Gregor Ivan Alexis Feodor". svenskagravar.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Sveriges statskalender för året 1955 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1955. p. 70.
  8. ^ Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1968 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1968. p. 156.
  9. ^ Sveriges statskalender för året 1959 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1959. p. 53.
  10. ^ Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1952 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1952. p. 68.
  11. ^ Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1968 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1968. p. 319.
  12. ^ a b "ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS" [FOREIGN ENTITIES AWARDED WITH PORTUGUESE ORDERS] (in Portuguese). Grand Master of Portuguese Honorary Orders. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Envoy of Sweden to Greece
1949–1951 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Envoy of Sweden to South Africa
1954–1959 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Portugal
1959–1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Sweden to Liberia
1959–1961 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
?
 Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps
1970–1974 		Succeeded by
Court offices
Preceded by
Joen Lagerberg
 Grand Master of Ceremonies
1971–1977 		Succeeded by
Tore Tallroth
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Aminoff