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Mar 01, 1903 Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway Died on 12 May 1986 (aged 83)
Norwegian diplomat
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About Helge Akre
- Helge Akre (1 March 1903 – 12 May 1986 ) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was a son of Herman Skyrud (1859–1913) and Oline Akre (1871–1967), and bore his mother's last name from 1933.
- He took his secondary education in Rouen and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1933.
- He worked as a translator and attorney before being hired in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1936.
- He served in Brazil, Japan, China, Poland, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in his early career.
- He was then the consul-general in Rotterdam from 1951 to 1958 and Chicago from 1958 to 1963.
- From 1963 he served as the Norwegian ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
- From 1967 he led the Norwegian embassy in Iceland.He was decorated as a Knight First Class of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1956, Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and Officier d'Académie of France.
- He resided in Bærum.
