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Princess Ebba Bernadotte (née Ebba Henrietta Munck af Fulkila; 24 October 1858 – 16 October 1946), was a Swedish noble, lady-in-waiting and a titular princess, the spouse of Prince Oscar Bernadotte.
Ebba Munck af Fulkila. La princesa Ebba en 1895. Ebba Munck ( Jönköping, 24 de octubre de 1858- Estocolmo, 16 de octubre de 1946), condesa Bernadotte de Wisborg, esposa del príncipe Óscar de Suecia. Fue conocida después de su matrimonio como Ebba Bernadotte .
Ebba Munck (Jönköping, 24 de octubre de 1858-Estocolmo, 16 de octubre de 1946), condesa Bernadotte de Wisborg, esposa del príncipe Óscar de Suecia. Fue conocida después de su matrimonio como Ebba Bernadotte .
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Munck, Ebba (1858–1946)Countess of Wisborg. Name variations: Ebba Henrietta of Fulkila. Born Ebba Henrietta Munck on November 15, 1858; died on October 16, 1946; daughter of Carl Jacob Munck; married Oscar Charles Augustus (son of the king of Sweden), count of Wisborg, on March 15, 1888;
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Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte, the Swedish royal family. His father, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland), was the second son of King Oscar II of Sweden; his mother, Ebba Munck af Fulkila, had been a lady in waiting to Victoria of Baden, the wife of Crown ...
World War II
During the autumns of 1943 and 1944, he organized prisoner exchanges which brought home 11,000 prisoners from Germany via Sweden. While Vice-President of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, Bernadotte attempted to negotiate an armistice between Germany and the Allies. He also led several rescue missions in Germany for the Red Cross. In April 1945, Heinrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of...
White Buses
Upon the initiative of the Norwegian diplomat Niels Christian Ditleff in the final months of the war, Bernadotte acted as the negotiator for a rescue operation transporting interned Norwegians, Danesand other western European inmates from German concentration camps to hospitals in Sweden. In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met Heinrich Himmler, who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following the assassination attempt on Hitler the year before. Bern...
UN mediator
On 20 May 1948, Folke Bernadotte was appointed "United Nations Mediator in Palestine", in accordance with UN-resolution 186 of 14 May 1948.It was the first official mediation in the UN's history. This was necessitated by the immediate violence that followed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the subsequent unilateral Israeli Declaration of Independence. In this capacity, he succeeded in achieving an initial truce during the subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War and laid the ground...
Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary militant organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang. Immediately after Bernadotte was pronounced dead, his body was moved to the YMCA, after which it was taken to Haifa and flown back to Sweden. Bernadotte was granted a state...
In 1928 in Pleasantville, New York, Folke Bernadotte married Estelle Romaine Manville (1904–1984), whose family had founded part of the Johns-ManvilleCorporation.They had four sons, two of whom died in childhood. 1. Count Gustaf Eduard Bernadotte of Wisborg (1930–1936) 2. Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (born 1931), married Christine Glahns 3. Co...
Bernadotte, Folke (1945). The Curtain Falls. Translated by Count Eric Lewenhaupt. New York: A. A. Knopf. LCCN 45008956. (Swedish title: Slutet.)Bernadotte, Folke (1948). Instead of arms: autobiographical notes. Stockholm; New York: Bonniers. ISBN 978-1-125-28453-7.Bernadotte, Folke (1947). Människor jag mött [People I Met] (in Swedish). Stockholm: A. Bonnier.Bernadotte, Folke (1976) [1951]. To Jerusalem. Translated by Joan Bulman. Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press.General sources
1. Kushner, Harvey W. (2002). Encyclopedia of Terrorism. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-2408-1. 2. Marton, Kati (1994). A Death in Jerusalem. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-679-42083-5. 3. Schwartz, Ted (1992). Walking with the Damned: The Shocking Murder of the Man Who Freed 30,000 Prisoners from the Nazis. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 978-1-55778-315-8.
Ben-Dror, Elad (2015). Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Mediation and the UN 1947–1949, Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-78988-3.
Newspaper clippings about Folke Bernadotte in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBWPrince Oscar was Duke of Gotland until 1888 and Count of Wisborg from 1892. He completed his school exams and his naval officer training in 1879, after which he studied at Uppsala. When he married Lady-in-Waiting Ebba Munck of Fulkila in 1888, he renounced all rights to the Swedish throne.
Ebba Henrietta Munck af Fulkila. Birth. 24 Oct 1858. Sweden. Death. 16 Oct 1946 (aged 87) Sweden. Burial. Norra Begravningsplatsen. Solna, Solna kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden Show Map. Plot. Bernadotte Mausoleum. Memorial ID. 83190997. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 3. Flowers 7. Memorials. Region. Europe. Sweden. Stockholms län.
