Lars von Celsing

Lars Petrus Folke von Celsing (1 April 1916 – 17 August 2009) was a Swedish diplomat.

von Celsing was born in , Sweden and was the son of bank executive Folke von Celsing and Margareta (née Norström) and brother of the architect Peter Celsing and the doctor Fredrik Celsing. He passed studentexamen on 8 May 1934 and received a Candidate of Law degree from on 27 May 1942. von Celsing did university studies in Paris and Berlin before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1942. He served in Bern in 1943 and was second legation secretary in Bern in 1947 and served in the UN delegation the same year. In 1948 he moved to New York City and served at the United Nations Security Council.

He became first legation secretary in London in 1950 and first secretary at the Foreign Ministry in 1952. von Celsing was acting chargé d'affaires in Lisbon from 1953 to 1954 and in 1955 he became first embassy secretary in Tehran and Baghdad. He was embassy counsellor in Helsinki from 1958 to 1962 and director of the political department at the Foreign Ministry in 1963 and became deputy rirector in 1965. von Celsing was ambassador in Rabat, Nouakchott, Dakar and Banjul from 1967 to 1972, Cairo and Khartoum from 1972 to 1976 and in Brussels and Luxembourg City from 1976 to 1979.

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