Knut Hammarskjöld has left us

Knut Hammarskjöld suddenly passed away on 3 January 2012 at his home in Lidingö. As nephew to Dag Hammarskjöld he was very close to his uncle and throughout 2011 participated actively in various events commemorating the 50th year of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death, among others at seminars in London and The Hague (where his father served as a registrar and then judge to the Court until his untimely death in 1937). He paid tribute to his uncle and his close relation to him as a kind of second father in a contribution to the volume the Foundation published in December 2011 in remembrance of the second UN Secretary-General. Knut attended the book launch and shared a few memories with the audience. On 12 October 2011 the UN Secretary-General visited the Hammarskjöld family grave in Uppsala (where also Knut’s father had been put to rest), where he met members of the family. It pictures behind Knut Hammarskjöld from left: Peder Hammarskjöld, Inga-Lill Hammarskjöld, Ban Ki-moon and Carl Gustav Hammarskjöld. We mourn with Knut’s wife Inga-Lill and other members of the Hammarskjöld family the loss of a close friend.