Bernt Carlsson Papers

Period  1972, 1975-1983
Total size   0.7 m.
Consultation Not restricted
Repository  Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Biography

Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1938, died in Lockerbie, Scotland 1988; joined the social democratic youth league at the age of sixteen; studied economics at the university of Stockholm; assistant to the Minister of Commerce in 1967; International Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden in 1970; secretary-general of the Socialist International (SI) from 1976-1983; Commissioner for Namibia of the United Nations (UN); killed in the airplane crash near Lockerbie, on his way to New York for the ceremony marking the Namibia peace .

Contents

Appointment diaries 1977-1982; correspondence, largely from his SI period, 1972, 1975-1983, partly marked `private'; notes and internal memoranda of the SI 1977-1983; financial documents 1977-1982; a few typescripts of articles 1975-1976; some travelling documents 1977-1978.

Arrangement

The existing order of the archive, mainly a division in correspondence, notes en documents has been maintained, apart from a few corrections.

Processing information

List made by Bouwe Hijma in 1990

List of the archive of Bernt Carlsson

1

'Biographical notes on Bernt Carlsson '.   1981.  1 piece.

2-6

Agendas.   1977-1979 and 1981-1982.  5 volume.

2

1977.

3

1978.

4

1979.

5

1981.

6

1982.

7-8

Correspondence, notes and documents.   1972 and 1975-1976.  2 folders.

7

1972, 1975.

8

1976 and n.d.

9-21

Correspondence.   1977-1983.  13 folders.

9

1977.

10

1978.

11-12

1979.

13

1980.

14

1980 (only New Year cards).

15-16

1981.

17-18

1982.

19-20

1983, January-March.

21

1983, April-May.

22-39

Notes (specially internal memo's of the Socialist International and notes by Carlsson ).   1977-1983.  16 folders en 2 covers.

22

1977.

23

1978.

24-25

1979.

26-27

1980.

28-30

1981.

31-32

1982, January-Mai.

33

1982, June-August.

34-35

1982, September-December.

36-37

1983, January-March.

38-39

1983, April-Mai.

40-45

Documents specially relating to his financial administration.   1977-1982.  4 folders en 2 covers.

40

1977.

41

1978.

42

1979.

43

1980.

44

1981.

45

1982.

46

Typescripts of articles (by Carlsson ?): 'India - an unknown great power'   1975, 'The Social Democratic Party of Sweden '   1976. 'Iran, Zaire and Brazil three stooges of the USA' n.d. and copy of article by Carlsson 'Indien-okänd stormarkt' in Aktuellt i Politiken .   1975.  1 folder.

47

Tickets and other documents relating to travels by Carlsson .   1977-1978.  1 folder.

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.Photos of Bernt Carlsson together with Yasser Arafat 1974, Felipe González and Olof Palme 1976, Narajan 1977 and Jimmy Carter 1979.
NB. These photos have been transferred to the audiovisual department of the IISH.