Tage Pousette
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16 August 1921
Tage Pousette | |
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| Born | Sven Tage Pousette 16 August 1921 Yokohama, Japan |
| Died | 29 April 2012 (aged 90) Solna, Sweden |
| Alma mater | Stockholm University College |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Years active | 1948–1982 |
| Spouse |
Gunilla Kugelberg (m. 1953) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent | Harald Pousette (father) |
Sven Tage Pousette (16 August 1921 – 29 April 2012)[1] was a Swedish diplomat.
Pousette was born on 16 August 1921 during a stay of his father in Yokohama, Japan, the son of envoy Harald Pousette and his wife Cecilia (née Cedercrantz). He graduated as a reserve officer in 1942 and became a law graduate in Stockholm in 1948.[2]
Career
Pousette became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1948, served in Berlin and Bonn between 1949 and 1952, in Bern between 1952 and 1954, at the Foreign Ministry between 1954 and 1957, in Paris between 1957 and 1960 and was back at the Foreign Ministry from 1960 until 1964. Pousette was then an embassy adviser in Tehran from 1964 until 1969, in Lisbon from 1969 until 1975, and in The Hague from 1975 until 1977. He was then consul general in Minneapolis from 1978 to 1982.[2]
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