Hersleb Vogt
Hersleb Vogt (20 May 1912 – 9 November 1999) was a Norwegian diplomat.[1]
Biography
He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo). Norway. He studied law at the University of Oslo and graduated with a cand.jur. degree in law. He was hired in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1936.[2]
He worked as an embassy attaché in 1937 at Paris and Luxembourg and 1938 in Rome. In 1943 he joined the Norwegian Mission in Stockholm as Legation Secretary. From 1944 until the end of World War II he was first secretary and later head of section in the Norwegian State Department. In 1948 he became chargé d'affaires with Norwegian diplomatic missions in Brussels. In 1949 he was hired as an embassy counselor in the United Kingdom. [3]
He served as the Norwegian ambassador to Japan from 1953 to 1958, to West Germany from 1958 to 1963, to Denmark from 1963 to 1967, to France from 1967 to 1973, to Sweden from 1973 to 1977 and France again from 1977 to 1980.[2]
He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1961. He died in November 1999.[3]
References
- "Hersleb Vogt". Internationales Biographisches Archiv 26/1959 vom 15. Juni 1959. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- "Hersleb Vogt". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- Namtvedt, Leidulv (15 November 1999). "Hersleb Vogt (obituary)". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 11.
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Peter Martin Anker |
Norwegian ambassador to West Germany 1958–1963 |
Succeeded by Paul Koht |
| Preceded by Rolf Andersen |
Norwegian ambassador to France 1967–1973 |
Succeeded by Jahn Brochmann Halvorsen |
| Preceded by Edvard Isak Hambro |
Norwegian ambassador to France 1977–1980 |
Succeeded by Georg Kristiansen |