Alexis Aminoff


Gregor Iwan Alexis Feodor Aminoff was a Swedish diplomat and chamberlain.

Career

Aminoff was born in Stockholm, Sweden, son of the cabinet chamberlain Gregor Aminoff and his wife Elisabeth. He was ryttmästare in the Life Regiment of Horse in 1934 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs 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.
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. He was Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps from 1970 to 1974 and Grand Master of the Ceremonies from 1971 to 1977.

Personal life

In 1925 he married Märtha Linder, the daughter of general Ernst Linder and baroness Augusta. He was the father of Gregor and Alexandra. He died on 26 April 1977 in Stockholm and was buried at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

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