5.+Dag+Hammarskjold

 Dag Hammarskjöld Obituary                 Dag Hammarskjöld was born July 25, 1905 and died September 18, 1961. He was born in Jönköping, Sweden. He died in Ndola, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He lived most of his life in Uppsala, Sweden. He was the youngest child in his family. He studied first at Katedralskolan and then at Uppsala University where he graduated with a Master's degree in political economy. From 1930 to 1934, he was a secretary of a governmental committee on unemployment. From 1941 to 1948, he served as chairman of the Bank of Sweden. In 1947 , Hammarskjöld was appointed to Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and in 1949 he became the state secretary for foreign affairs. 1953, the Security Council recommended Hammarskjöld for UN Secretary General. In 1957, he was re-elected.  