Died 24 March 1991 | ||
Ragnvald Richardson (R:son) Bagge (12 November 1903 – 24 March 1991) was a Swedish diplomat.
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Career
Bagge was born in Quebec City, Canada and was the son of consul general Richard Bagge and Lily (née Schwartz). He received a Candidate of Law degree in 1926 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1928. Bagge served in Washington, D.C. from 1929 to 1930 and in Madrid in 1931 and was secretary of the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1932 to 1933. Bagge was second secretary in Tokyo from 1934 to 1936 and first secretary at the Foreign Ministry in 1937. Between 1938 and 1939, he was notary in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and became secretary there in 1940.
Subsequently Bagge was legation counsellor in Helsinki from 1941 to 1943, director in 1944, chargé d'affaires in Bogotá from 1948 to 1949 and envoy in Bogotá from 1949 to 1950. He was embassy counsellor and minister plenipotentiary in Washington, D.C. in 1950 and envoy in Tehran, also accredited to Baghdad from 1953 to 1959, as well as accredited to Karachi from 1953 to 1956. He was ambassador in Tehran from 1957 to 1959, ambassador in Warsaw from 1959 to 1962, ambassador in Ottawa from 1962 to 1965 and finally ambassador in Copenhagen from 1965 to 1969.
Personal life
In 1948 he married Finnish-born Susanna Lagerborg (born 1913), the daughter of the professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki Rolf Lagerborg and Elna (née Selin).
Awards and decorations
Bagge's awards: