Karl Gustav Idman ( Fin. Karl Gustaf Idman ; December 1, 1885 , Tammerfors , Grand Duchy of Finland - April 13, 1961 , Helsinki , Finland ) - Finnish politician and diplomat; from April to December 1925 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland .
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| Predecessor | Hialmar Prokope | ||||||
| Successor | Emil Setalia | ||||||
| Birth | December 1, 1885 Tammerfors , Grand Duchy of Finland | ||||||
| Death | April 13, 1961 (75 years old) Helsinki , Finland | ||||||
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| Education | Alexander University | ||||||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Law (1914) | ||||||
| Place of work | Alexander University | ||||||
Biography
Born December 1, 1885 in Tammerfors , in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
In 1914, Idman defended his doctoral dissertation at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki . From 1915 to 1917 he worked there as a professor at the Department of International Law.
When Finland declared independence at the end of 1917, Dr. Idman joined the newly formed Office of the Prime Minister. This was preceded by the participation of two Finnish delegations, who visited Petrograd in November-December 1917 and were negotiating with Lenin on the recognition of Finland by Soviet Russia.
Since then he has been in active diplomatic service. Since June 1918 - Special and Plenipotentiary Envoy in Copenhagen. In 1919-1927 (with a break in 1925) - ambassador in Budapest. From March 31 to December 31, 1925 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland .
In the period from mid-1927 to early 1939, Gustaf Idman served as an envoy to Riga and Kaunas, Prague, Warsaw and Bucharest. From October 1, 1939 until April 1945 he was an envoy to Tokyo. (Since 1941, combined work with the post of envoy in Manchuria , where the puppet state of Japan was located).
Since the spring of 1945 - in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
Since 1947, retired, having gone into which, he settled on the Hatanpää estate (Finnish. - Hatanpää) near the city of Tampere . Until the end of days he was engaged in charity.
Died April 13, 1961 in Helsinki in Finland. After his death, he left a huge fund, which bequeathed to the city of Tampere. Scholarships to talented students from this city are still paid out of it.
Literature
- Carl Gustav Idman, “Treaty of Guarantees in the Field of International Law”, 1913 (Le Traité de Garantie en droit international)
- Karl Gustav Idman “How Our Country Gained Independence: Memoirs”, 1953 (Maamme itsenäistymisen vuosilta: muistelmia)
- Karl Gustav Idman "Memoirs of a Diplomat: Our Independence at the Initial Stage of 1919-1927, 1954 (Diplomatminnen: Hågkomster från vår självständighets begynnelseskede 1919-1927)
Links
- Karl Gustav Idman (Fin.)
- Books of Karl Gustav Idman (Fin.)