Graf Folke Bernadotte av Wisborg

1895 - 1948  (53 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Folke Bernadotte av Wisborg
  Prefix	Graf
  Birth	2 Jan 1895	Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Sep 1948	Jerusalem, Palestine
  Siblings	4 Siblings
  1. Gräfin Maria Sophia Henrietta Bernadotte av Wisborg,   b. 28 Feb 1889, Carlskrona d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Graf Carl Oscar Bernadotte av Wisborg,   b. 27 May 1890, Carlskrona d. 1977  (Age 86 years) ▻ Freiin Marianne de Geer af Leufsta,  m. 15 Mar 1915 ;   Gerty Börjesson   3. Sophia Bernadotte av Wisborg,   b. 17 May 1892   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Gräfin Elsa Viktoria Bernadotte av Wisborg,   b. 3 Aug 1893, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Hugo Cedergren,  m. 1929 + 5. Graf Folke Bernadotte av Wisborg,   b. 2 Jan 1895, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige d. 17 Sep 1948, Jerusalem, Palestine  (Age 53 years) ▻ Estelle Romaine Mauville
  Person ID	I51543	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	12 May 2004

  
  

  Father	Prinz Oskar Karl August Bernadotte av Wisborg,   b. 15 Nov 1859, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige d. 4 Oct 1953, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Ebba Henriette Munck af Fulkila,   b. 24 Oct 1858, Jönköping, , Sverige d. 16 Oct 1946, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	15 Mar 1888
  Family ID	F20927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Estelle Romaine Mauville,   b. 26 Sep 1904, New York, New York, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Pleasantville, New York, USA
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F20931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2023

  
  

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  		Birth - 2 Jan 1895 - Stockholm, Stockholms län, Södermanland, Uppland, Sverige Death - 17 Sep 1948 - Jerusalem, Palestine Marriage - - Pleasantville, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  Swedish statesman; During World War II Bernadotte represented the Swedish red cross in the exchange of prisoners between Germany and the Allies. In 1943 he became its vice president and in 1946 he was appointed its president. Bernadotte negotiated with Heinrich Himmler on behalf of the Swedish Red Cross, and in March and April of 1945 succeeded in persuading him to release more than seven thousand Scandinavian nationals who were being held in Nazi concentration camps; these included over four hundred Danish Jews imprisoned in Theresienstadt. Following a meeting between Norbert Masur, the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden, and Himmler, Bernadotte also succeeded in arranging for the release of ten thousand women from the Ravensbruck concentration camp; two thousand of the women, who were nationals of various countries, were Jewish. Most of them were transferred to Sweden. On May 20, 1948, the United Nations Security Council appointed Bernadotte as a mediator on its behalf between Israel and the invading Arab countries. He negotiated a four - week truce, beginning on June 11, 1948, but was unable to obtain from the Arab states an agreement for its extension. Bernadotte then worked out a plan for the settlement of the conflict based on Israeli concessions to the Arabs, but on September 17 of that year he was assassinated in Jerusalem by Hazit ha-Moledet (Fatherland Front), a group connected with the Lohamei Herut Israel organization. The assassination was one of many by Lohamei Herut Yisrael, also known as the Stern gang, a Jewish terror organization, whose leaders included Yitzak Shamir who later would become Prime Minister for Israel. The Jewish National Fund planted a forest in the hills of Jerusalem in honor of Folke Bernadotte. His book, Instead of Arms, was published in 1949.