Björn-Olof Alholm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish ambassador
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Place of Birth: Mikkeli, Eastern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Björn-Olof Alholm
- Björn-Olof Alholm (25 April 1925 Mikkeli - 17 June 2011 Helsinki) was a Finnish ambassador who made a 40-year career in Foreign Affairs and was a known as dissident during the Urho Kekkonen presidencyAlholm fought in the Winter War as age of 14 in division led by his father's Jaeger Lieutenant Colonel Georg Alholm.
- He wounded in 1941 but was still involved in major battle at Kannas in 1944. In the autumn of 1944 Alholm entered t the Reserve Officer School.
- Alholm graduated as a Master of Political Science in 1948 and joined to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs the same year.
- As an ambassador he started in 1966 in Bucharest and then in Switzerland between 1968-1970 and then in Moscow between 1970 and 1974 and then in 1974-1977 in Bonn. Alholm's Bonn time was stormy, and, among other things, these times and, more generally, Kekkonen presidency he has dealt in his book The Dissident Ambassador (2001).
- After Bonn, Alholm worked in Cairo, Vienna and last since 1983 in Stockholm, he retired in 1991
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