Count Fritz Carl Louis Stackelberg (31 May 1899 – 18 November 1988[1]) was a Swedish diplomat. He served as a Swedish envoy in Venezuela (1948–1953) with dual accreditation to a number of countries in the Caribbean, as well as ambassador to Greece (1956–1962) and Switzerland (1962–1965).
Stackelberg was born on 31 May 1899 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of ryttmästare, count Adolf Stackelberg (1850–1906) and countess Charlotte Lewenhaupt (born 1861). He passed studentexamen in Linköping in 1917.[2]
Stackelberg attended the Royal Military Academy in Stockholm in 1919 and served as a second lieutenant in the Svea Artillery Regiment (A 1) from 1920 to 1922.[3] Stackelberg received a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1925 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs the year after. He served in Copenhagen, Bern, London, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade from 1926 to 1930 and was lieutenant at the Svea Artillery Regiment's reserve from 1928 to 1929.[2] He was the Foreign Minister's private secretary from 1930 to 1932, and was second secretary at the Foreign Ministry in 1931 and in Oslo and Rouen in 1932.[2]
Stackelberg served as secretary in trade negotiations with Italy[3] and was first vice consul in London in 1935. He became first legation secretary in Rome in 1938, legation counsellor in 1940, and director at the Foreign Ministry the same year.
He was representative at the trade negotiations with Italy and Finland from 1941 to 1945, head of delegation in the trade negotiations with Bulgaria in 1944, legation counsellor in Paris in 1944, and then again in Copenhagen in 1947.[3] Stackelberg was representative at the trade negotiations with Denmark from 1947 to 1948 and was envoy in Caracas, Havana, Ciudad Trujillo and in Port-au-Prince from 1948 to 1953. He was chief of protocol from 1953 to 1956 and ambassador in Athens from 1956 to 1962 and in Bern from 1962 to 1965. After that, Stackelberg served in the central board of the International Red Cross from 1966 to 1979.[3]
In 1937, he married Marianne Schumacher (1915–1999), the daughter of lawyer Adolf Schumacher and Greta Schumacher (née Lindström). He was the father of Claes-Erik (born 1938), Katarina (1939), and Madeleine (1948).[2]
Commander of the Order of the Polar Star[2] Knight of the Order of Saint John in Sweden[2] Herald of the Orders of His Majesty the King[2]
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit[2]
Grand Officer of the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes[2]
Commander 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog[2]
Grand Knight's Cross with Star of the Order of the Falcon (22 April 1954)[4]
Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland[2]
Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus[2]
Commander of the Order of the Golden Star of China[2] Knight 1st Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland[2]
Officer of the Legion of Honour[2]
Officer of the Austrian Badge of Honor[2]
First Class of the Greek Red Cross of Badge of Honor with laurel wreath[2]