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VaticanPius Order, grand cross set, in case, with document to Ambassador of the Embassy of Finnla
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Pius Order, grand cross set, in case, with document to Ambassador of the Embassy of Finnland Björn-Olof Alholm.
1.) Cross: silver gilded, partially enamelled, on ready to wear sash; 2.) Star: silver, partially giled and enamelled, on pin, with additional hooks; in red gold embossed case, maker mark of Fratelli Travani, Roma in the lid; award document from 1983; paper of approval; statutes.
CD S. 45ff, VPI1 S. 97. 70 x 69 mm / 82 x 81 mm, 156,1 g m.B. / 79, 4 g.
Björn-Olof Alholm was born on April 25th 1925. His father was Oberstleutnant Georg Jaeger Alholm and commanded an Artillery Division during the Winter War. Björn-Olof went, together with his father beeing only 16 years of age, into the war and was present at the big battle of SUomussalmi and at Raate. In July 1941 - during the Continuation War - he got wounded, but was back on the battlefield again for the fightings at Kuuterselässä and Tali-Ihantala before he went to officers school in fall 1944. After the war, he graduaded in 1948 with a masters decret in political science and started to work in the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. His service made him go to stay in Frankfurt am Main, Washington, Brussels, New York and Moscow. President Kekkonen promoted him in 1970 to Ambassador of Finnland in Moscow. Three years later he was transfered to Bonn. His more then 40 years long career ended in 1991 in Stockholm - and among the honorary guests there where King Carl XVI. Gustav and Silvia from Sweden. Alholm distinguished himself by a clear and open minded polictical view during his whole career. And even criticism within the own crowd wasnt unusual, making him an honest person. For the sovjet-finnish relation he always had an ear and eye - what caused, that he worked on this topic also scientifically. Making him able to recognice a kind of historical trauma and a form of identity shifting with the finnish Autonomy movement. In 2001 he published his book Dissident Ambassador (Toisinajattelija suurlähettiläänä) which deals with this topic. Alholm died after a long illness on June 17th 2011 in Helsinki.
Picture of the awardee and curriculum vitae included. See also Lots Nr. 13, 510 and 511.
Condition: II
Pius Order, grand cross set, in case, with document to Ambassador of the Embassy of Finnland Björn-Olof Alholm.
1.) Cross: silver gilded, partially enamelled, on ready to wear sash; 2.) Star: silver, partially giled and enamelled, on pin, with additional hooks; in red gold embossed case, maker mark of Fratelli Travani, Roma in the lid; award document from 1983; paper of approval; statutes.
CD S. 45ff, VPI1 S. 97. 70 x 69 mm / 82 x 81 mm, 156,1 g m.B. / 79, 4 g.
Björn-Olof Alholm was born on April 25th 1925. His father was Oberstleutnant Georg Jaeger Alholm and commanded an Artillery Division during the Winter War. Björn-Olof went, together with his father beeing only 16 years of age, into the war and was present at the big battle of SUomussalmi and at Raate. In July 1941 - during the Continuation War - he got wounded, but was back on the battlefield again for the fightings at Kuuterselässä and Tali-Ihantala before he went to officers school in fall 1944. After the war, he graduaded in 1948 with a masters decret in political science and started to work in the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. His service made him go to stay in Frankfurt am Main, Washington, Brussels, New York and Moscow. President Kekkonen promoted him in 1970 to Ambassador of Finnland in Moscow. Three years later he was transfered to Bonn. His more then 40 years long career ended in 1991 in Stockholm - and among the honorary guests there where King Carl XVI. Gustav and Silvia from Sweden. Alholm distinguished himself by a clear and open minded polictical view during his whole career. And even criticism within the own crowd wasnt unusual, making him an honest person. For the sovjet-finnish relation he always had an ear and eye - what caused, that he worked on this topic also scientifically. Making him able to recognice a kind of historical trauma and a form of identity shifting with the finnish Autonomy movement. In 2001 he published his book Dissident Ambassador (Toisinajattelija suurlähettiläänä) which deals with this topic. Alholm died after a long illness on June 17th 2011 in Helsinki.
Picture of the awardee and curriculum vitae included. See also Lots Nr. 13, 510 and 511.
Condition: II
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Pius Order, grand cross set, in case, with document to Ambassador of the Embassy of Finnland Björn-Olof Alholm.
1.) Cross: silver gilded, partially enamelled, on ready to wear sash; 2.) Star: silver, partially giled and enamelled, on pin, with additional hooks; in red gold embossed case, maker mark of Fratelli Travani, Roma in the lid; award document from 1983; paper of approval; statutes.
CD S. 45ff, VPI1 S. 97. 70 x 69 mm / 82 x 81 mm, 156,1 g m.B. / 79, 4 g.
Björn-Olof Alholm was born on April 25th 1925. His father was Oberstleutnant Georg Jaeger Alholm and commanded an Artillery Division during the Winter War. Björn-Olof went, together with his father beeing only 16 years of age, into the war and was present at the big battle of SUomussalmi and at Raate. In July 1941 - during the Continuation War - he got wounded, but was back on the battlefield again for the fightings at Kuuterselässä and Tali-Ihantala before he went to officers school in fall 1944. After the war, he graduaded in 1948 with a masters decret in political science and started to work in the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. His service made him go to stay in Frankfurt am Main, Washington, Brussels, New York and Moscow. President Kekkonen promoted him in 1970 to Ambassador of Finnland in Moscow. Three years later he was transfered to Bonn. His more then 40 years long career ended in 1991 in Stockholm - and among the honorary guests there where King Carl XVI. Gustav and Silvia from Sweden. Alholm distinguished himself by a clear and open minded polictical view during his whole career. And even criticism within the own crowd wasnt unusual, making him an honest person. For the sovjet-finnish relation he always had an ear and eye - what caused, that he worked on this topic also scientifically. Making him able to recognice a kind of historical trauma and a form of identity shifting with the finnish Autonomy movement. In 2001 he published his book Dissident Ambassador (Toisinajattelija suurlähettiläänä) which deals with this topic. Alholm died after a long illness on June 17th 2011 in Helsinki.
Picture of the awardee and curriculum vitae included. See also Lots Nr. 13, 510 and 511.
Condition: II
Pius Order, grand cross set, in case, with document to Ambassador of the Embassy of Finnland Björn-Olof Alholm.
1.) Cross: silver gilded, partially enamelled, on ready to wear sash; 2.) Star: silver, partially giled and enamelled, on pin, with additional hooks; in red gold embossed case, maker mark of Fratelli Travani, Roma in the lid; award document from 1983; paper of approval; statutes.
CD S. 45ff, VPI1 S. 97. 70 x 69 mm / 82 x 81 mm, 156,1 g m.B. / 79, 4 g.
Björn-Olof Alholm was born on April 25th 1925. His father was Oberstleutnant Georg Jaeger Alholm and commanded an Artillery Division during the Winter War. Björn-Olof went, together with his father beeing only 16 years of age, into the war and was present at the big battle of SUomussalmi and at Raate. In July 1941 - during the Continuation War - he got wounded, but was back on the battlefield again for the fightings at Kuuterselässä and Tali-Ihantala before he went to officers school in fall 1944. After the war, he graduaded in 1948 with a masters decret in political science and started to work in the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. His service made him go to stay in Frankfurt am Main, Washington, Brussels, New York and Moscow. President Kekkonen promoted him in 1970 to Ambassador of Finnland in Moscow. Three years later he was transfered to Bonn. His more then 40 years long career ended in 1991 in Stockholm - and among the honorary guests there where King Carl XVI. Gustav and Silvia from Sweden. Alholm distinguished himself by a clear and open minded polictical view during his whole career. And even criticism within the own crowd wasnt unusual, making him an honest person. For the sovjet-finnish relation he always had an ear and eye - what caused, that he worked on this topic also scientifically. Making him able to recognice a kind of historical trauma and a form of identity shifting with the finnish Autonomy movement. In 2001 he published his book Dissident Ambassador (Toisinajattelija suurlähettiläänä) which deals with this topic. Alholm died after a long illness on June 17th 2011 in Helsinki.
Picture of the awardee and curriculum vitae included. See also Lots Nr. 13, 510 and 511.
Condition: II
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