Jens Malling

Malling was born on 11 April 1909 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of lieutenant colonel Henrik Malling and his wife Ingrid (née Asklund). He passed studentexamen in Lund in 1928 and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1932, a Politices Magister (MA in political science) degree in 1938 and a Candidate of Law degree in 1938.{{cite book |editor1-last=Harnesk |editor1-first=Paul |date=1962 |title=Vem är vem? 1, Stor-Stockholm |trans-title=Who is Who? 1, Greater Stockholm |edition=2nd |location=Stockholm |publisher=Vem är vem |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|53509}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm62/0913.html |page=889}}

Malling became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1938 and served in Rome the same year and in Chicago in 1939 and in Washington, D.C. in 1940. Malling was acting second vice consul in New York City in 1943 and second secretary at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm in 1944.

Malling was first vice consul in Hamburg in 1946 and first legation secretary and chargé d'affaires ad interim in Vienna in 1946. He served as first secretary at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm in 1948 and was secretary in the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1950. Malling was then legation counselor and chargé d'affaires in Tel Aviv in 1953{{cite book |editor-last=Lagerström |editor-first=Sten |date=1968 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1969 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1969 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|3681519}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1969/0657.html |page=641}} and mediator at the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Korea in 1955.

Malling was appointed envoy in Tel Aviv in 1956 and was ambassador in Jakarta and non-resident ambassador in Manila from 1956 to 1959 as well as non-resident ambassador in Kuala Lumpur from 1958 to 1959. He was then minister at the UN delegation in New York City in 1959 and resident at the representation of UN's technical assistance operations in Iraq from 1959 to 1961. Malling succeeded Carl Douglas as ambassador in Rio de Janeiro in 1961 after Douglas had died in a car accident there on 21 January.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=VEST19610427.1.1 |newspaper=Vestkusten |title=Jens Malling Rio-ambassadör |location=San Francisco & Oakland, Cal |page=1 |number=17 |id={{LIBRIS|4085814}} |date=27 April 1961 |access-date=30 March 2017 |language=sv}} He became honorary chairman of the Swedish-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in 1961.{{cite book |year=1964 |title=Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1964 |location=Uppsala |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |language=sv |url=https://runeberg.org/statskal/1964/0892.html |page=892}} Malling stayed as ambassador there until 1965 before becoming ambassador in The Hague in 1966.

Malling died on 25 January 1969 in a hospital in The Hague. He had surgery for a thrombosis and complications arose after the procedure.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1969-01-26/12/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Jens Malling död |page=12 |date=26 January 1969 |access-date=2 March 2023 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} Malling was interred at the Northern Cemetery in Lund on 22 March 1969.{{cite web |url=https://www.svenskagravar.se/gravsatt/131932180 |website=www.svenskargavar.se |title=Malling, Jens Henrik Peder Arnold |access-date=2 March 2023 |language=sv}}

Malling had been described by Jan Mårtenson as being a "chubby, white-haired and blue-eyed bachelor, jovial and humorous, a little of an aging cherub".{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwlhAgAAQBAJ&q=Jens+Malling&pg=PT112 |last1=Mårtenson |first1=Jan |author-link=Jan Mårtenson |last2=Öström |first2=Arne |title=Att kyssa ett träd |year=2014 |publisher=Wahlström & Widstrand |language=sv |isbn=9789146222477 |id={{LIBRIS|13414072}}}}

• 50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Knight of the Order of the Polar Star
• {{flagicon|Argentina}} Commander of the Order of Merit of Argentina (Orden Al Mérito)
• 50px {{flagicon|Brazil}} Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross
• 50px {{flagicon|Norway}} Commander of the Order of St. Olav (1 July 1953){{cite web |url=https://www.kongehuset.no/tildelinger.html?tid=28028&sek=27995&q=Malling%2C+J.H.P.A.&type=&aarstall= |publisher=Royal Court of Norway |title=Tildelinger av ordener og medaljer |trans-title=Awards of medals and medals |accessdate=2 March 2023 |language=no}}
• 50px {{flagicon|Italy}} Second Class of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity
• 50px {{flagicon|Spain}} Officer of the Order of Civil Merit
• 50px {{flagicon|Mexico}} Knight of the Order of the Aztec Eagle

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