Albert Ehrensvärd | |
Office: | State Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
Term Start: | 1906 |
Term End: | 1908 |
Predecessor: | Carl Haraldsson Strömfelt |
Successor: | Fredrik Ramel |
Office1: | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Term Start1: | 7 October 1911 |
Term End1: | 17 February 1914 |
Predecessor1: | Arvid Taube |
Successor1: | Knut Wallenberg |
Birth Name: | Johan Jacob Albert Ehrensvärd |
Birth Date: | 9 May 1867 |
Birth Place: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Death Place: | Lund, Sweden |
Restingplace: | Uppenbarelsekyrkan |
Relatives: | Carl August Ehrensvärd (brother) |
Education: | Lund University |
Johan Jakob Albert Ehrensvärd (9 May 1867 – 6 March 1940) was a Swedish diplomat. He was Sweden's envoy to Washington D.C between 1910 and 1911. He became Sweden's Foreign Minister in Liberal leader and Prime Minister Karl Staaff's Second Cabinet. As Foreign Minister of Sweden he instituted reforms in the Swedish Foreign Service and worked to ease tensed relations with Czarist Russia.