Harald Edelstam


Gustav Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II he earned the nickname Svarta nejlikan for helping SOE agents and saboteurs escape from the Germans. During the early 1970s he was stationed in Santiago, Chile, and became known as the Raoul Wallenberg of the 1970s when he helped hundreds of Cuban diplomats and civilians, 67 Uruguayan and Bolivian refugees, and over 1,200 Chilean political active people escape persecution by dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Edelstam was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of chamberlain Fabian Edelstam and Hilma Dickinson. He was the older brother of the ambassador Axel Edelstam and grandson of member of parliament Ernst Edelstam. Edelstam passed studentexamen in 1933 and earned a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1939 before becoming an employed as an attach at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm the same year.

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