Karl Anders Wollter

Career

Wollter was born in Lund, Sweden, the son of the editor Kjell Wollter his wife Elsa (née Ekwall) and brother of actor Sven Wollter. He grew up on Solhöjdsgatan in Långedrag, Gothenburg. After his mandatory military service Wollter got a US scholarship and took a Bachelor of Arts degree in the United States in 1949.

He was then an employee of SKF 1949-51 before he took a Candidate of Law degree at Lund University in 1955. He became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1955 and served in Helsinki in 1956, Brussels and Antwerp in 1957, Oslo in 1959, at the Foreign Ministry in 1960, Monrovia in 1961, at the Foreign Ministry again in 1963 and Moscow in 1966. Wollter became embassy counsellor in Moscow in 1970, consul general in Leningrad in 1972 and served at the Foreign Ministry in 1972. He was deputy director at the Foreign Ministry in 1972 and deputy director-general in 1973. Wollter then became Swedish ambassador in Lagos and Accra in 1974, also accredited in Porto-Novo and Niamey from 1976. He became ambassador in Buenos Aires in 1977 and there he was involved in the case of the missing Dagmar Hagelin. Wollter became ambassador in Mexico City in 1980 and was available to the Foreign Minister in 1985. Wollter became after that ambassador in Madrid in 1986 and was finally ambassador in Athens 1989-92 prior to his retirement.

He was Sweden's negotiating leader in various bilateral trade negotiations 1972-74 as well as expert at the delegation of the 40th General Assembly of the United Nations in 1985.

Personal life

In 1955-60 Wollter was married to the ambassador Margareta Hegardt, the daughter of the judge Carl Hegardt and Blenda, née Koch. He married for the second time in 1961 to Ulla Ekwall (born 1939), in the Swedish church in Oslo. Together they have the children Anders (born 1965 in Gothenburg), Michael (born 1962 in Monrovia), Sven (born 1963 in Monrovia), Maria (born 1966 in Stockholm) and Kristina (born in 1979 in Buenos Aires).