Margaretha af Ugglas

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| name = Margaretha af Ugglas

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| office = Minister for Foreign Affairs

| term_start = 4 October 1991

| term_end = 7 October 1994

| monarch = Carl XVI Gustaf

| primeminister = Carl Bildt

| predecessor= Sten Andersson

| successor= Lena Hjelm-Wallén

| constituency_MP2 = Moderate Party

| parliament2 = Swedish

| term_start2 = 1974

| term_end2 = 1995

| birth_name = Märta Margaretha Stenbeck

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| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

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| nationality = Swedish

| party = Moderate Party

| spouse = {{marriage|Bertil af Ugglas|1966|1977|end=his death}}

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| father = Hugo Stenbeck

| relatives = Jan Stenbeck (brother)

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| alma_mater = Stockholm School of Economics
Harvard Business School

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Märta Margaretha af Ugglas ({{née|Stenbeck}}; born 5 January 1939) is a Swedish former Moderate Party politician.{{cite web|url=http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=018160186302|website=riksdagen.se|publisher=The Swedish Parliament|title=Margaretha af Ugglas (M)|accessdate=10 May 2010|language=Swedish|archive-date=10 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610162002/http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=018160186302|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=2282|title=Mrs Margaretha af UGGLAS|work=assembly.coe.int|publisher=Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe|accessdate=10 May 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515015716/http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=2282|archivedate=15 May 2010}} She was minister for foreign affairs between 1991 and 1994.

Early life

She is the daughter of Hugo Stenbeck, a lawyer and the founder of Investment AB Kinnevik, and his wife Märta (née Odelfeldt).{{cite book |editor1-last=Öhrström |editor1-first=Kerstin |editor2-last=Andersson |editor2-first=Sigrid |date=1988 |title=Vem är hon: kvinnor i Sverige: biografisk uppslagsbok [1988] |trans-title=Who is she: women in Sweden: biographical reference book [1988] |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |isbn=91-1-863422-2 |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|3621469}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarhon/0472.html |page=472}} She was the sister of Hugo Jr (1933–1976), Elisabeth Silfverstolpe (1935–1985) and Jan Stenbeck (1942–2002). af Ugglas fought a bitter feud with her brother Jan over the family fortune, and subsequently withdrew from her brother and Kinnevik.{{cite news |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/ddGoMX/arvde-miljarder--och-olycka |newspaper=Aftonbladet |title=Ärvde miljarder – och olycka |first=Kerstin |last=Nilsson |date=17 March 2015 |access-date=9 October 2019 |language=sv |archive-date=4 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104060511/https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/ddGoMX/arvde-miljarder--och-olycka |url-status=live }}

Career

af Ugglas attended the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration from 1960 to 1971 and graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1964 with a degree in business administration and economics (Civilekonom). She then worked for Veckans Affärer from 1967 to 1968 and Svenska Dagbladet from 1968 to 1973 as an editorial writer. She was a member of the Stockholm County Council from 1971 to 1973, was publisher of the Svensk tidskrift from 1980 to 1991, and was a member of parliament between 1974 and 1995.

After the election victory in September 1991, Margaretha af Ugglas became Sweden's second female minister for foreign affairs. Her term included the finalisation of the negotiations leading up to Sweden's entry into the European Union.{{Cite web |url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2148/MARGARETHA_AF+UGGLAS_home.html |title=Margaretha af UGGLAS {{!}} History of parliamentary service {{!}} MEPs {{!}} European Parliament |publisher=European Parliament |access-date=8 March 2018 |archive-date=26 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026073000/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2148/MARGARETHA_AF+UGGLAS_home.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_STU(2015)563509 |title=The 1995 enlargement of the European Union: The accession of Finland and Sweden – Think Tank |publisher=European Parliament |access-date=8 March 2018 |archive-date=8 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308231418/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_STU(2015)563509 |url-status=live }} In 1992, together with an EU Commissioner and nine other ministers of foreign affairs from the Baltic Sea area, she founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.{{cite book |last=Kristensen |first=Gustav N. |year=2010 |title=Born into a Dream. EuroFaculty and the Council of the Baltic Sea States |publisher=Berliner Wissentshafts-Verlag |isbn=978-3-8305-1769-6}} af Ugglas served as the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE from 1992 to 1993. The Moderate Party lost the 1994 election and she was elected to the European Parliament in 1995.{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=2148|publisher=European Parliament|title=Your MEPs: Margaretha af UGGLAS|accessdate=16 June 2015|archive-date=21 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521032752/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=2148|url-status=live}} She was vice chairman of the European People's Party from 1996.

She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a board member of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and a delegate of the Council of Europe. Furthermore, af Ugglas was board member of the Bulten-Kanthal AB, Investment AB Kinnevik{{cite book |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1977 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1977 |year=1976 |publisher=Norstedt |location=Stockholm |language=sv |isbn=91-1-766022-X |id={{LIBRIS|3681523}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1977/1062.html |page=1042 |access-date=26 December 2023 |archive-date=30 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130204453/http://runeberg.org/vemardet/1977/1062.html |url-status=live }} Boliden AB, Swedish Match AB and Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB.{{cite book |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1985 |year=1984 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |language=sv |isbn=91-1-843222-0 |id={{LIBRIS|3681527}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/1126.html |page=1126 |access-date=26 December 2023 |archive-date=30 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130031403/https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/1126.html |url-status=live }} She was chairman of the Save the Children's Stockholm Association, the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization and the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation from 2002 to 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.hjalmarsonstiftelsen.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Nyhetsbrev-Nr-5-2010.pdf |publisher=Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation |title=Margaretha af Ugglas avtackades av Gunilla Carlsson |number=5 |year=2010 |access-date=9 October 2019 |language=sv |archive-date=10 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710051307/http://www.hjalmarsonstiftelsen.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Nyhetsbrev-Nr-5-2010.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Personal life

In 1966 she married Bertil af Ugglas (1934–1977), the son of Commander Oscar af Ugglas and Ingeborg (née Lewenhaupt).{{cite book |editor-last=Salander Mortensen |editor-first=Jill |year=1996 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1997 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |isbn=91-1-960852-7 |language=Swedish |id={{LIBRIS|3681533}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/1142.html |page=1142}}

Awards and decorations

50x50px {{flagicon|Estonia}} 1st Class of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (9 February 2000){{cite web |url=https://vp1992-2001.president.ee/eng/ateated/AmetlikTeade.asp?ID=2644 |publisher=Office of the President of the Republic |title=President of the Republic awards decorations to 168 people |location=Tallinn |date=9 February 2000 |accessdate=9 August 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714121543/http://vp1992-2001.president.ee/eng/ateated/AmetlikTeade.asp?ID=2644 |url-status=live }}