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Folke Bernadotte

1895 - 1948

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Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Folke Bernadotte has received more than 1,155,587 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Folke Bernadotte is the 14th most popular diplomat, the 60th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Diplomat.

Folke Bernadotte was a Swedish diplomat who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate in the Arab-Israeli War. He was assassinated in 1948 by a group of Jewish terrorists.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Folke Bernadotte ranks 14 out of 90. Before him are Alexandra Kollontai, Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, Lucien Bonaparte, and Madeleine Albright. After him are John R. Bolton, Chaim Herzog, Mohamed ElBaradei, Alva Myrdal, Antony Blinken, and Hasekura Tsunenaga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Folke Bernadotte ranks 24. Before him are Henrik Dam, Dolores Ibárruri, Nikolai Yezhov, Sergei Yesenin, Ludvík Svoboda, and Cristóbal Balenciaga. After him are Paul Hindemith, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Semyon Timoshenko, Anastas Mikoyan, Gerhard Domagk, and Cemal Gürsel. Among people deceased in 1948, Folke Bernadotte ranks 12. Before him are Franz Lehár, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Hideki Tojo, Walther von Brauchitsch, Edgar de Wahl, and Antonin Artaud. After him are Andrei Zhdanov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Brandt, Johannes Blaskowitz, Witold Pilecki, and Babe Ruth.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Folke Bernadotte ranks 60 out of 1,879. Before him are Max von Sydow (1929), Stellan Skarsgård (1951), Astrid of Sweden (1905), Anita Ekberg (1931), Björn Ulvaeus (1945), and Gunnar Nordahl (1921). After him are Gustav III of Sweden (1746), Björn Borg (1956), Henning Mankell (1948), Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), and Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

Among diplomats born in Sweden, Folke Bernadotte ranks 3. Before him are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), and Raoul Wallenberg (1912). After him are Alva Myrdal (1902), and Hans Blix (1928).

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