Albert Ehrensvärd Explained

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.