Dag Ramsøy Bryn
Dag Ramsøy Bryn ( born March 17, 1909 in Christiania, † April 11, 1991 in Tvedestrand ) was a Norwegian psychologist, politician ( Arbeiderpartiet ) and diplomat.
Life
Bryn, whose father headed the Nautical School in Bergen, grew up in Christiania ( today's Oslo ) and Bergen. After his graduation in 1927 he began studying psychology, which he completed in 1932. In the same year he worked out a curriculum for the academic psychology in 1934 was followed by the publication of his book Tidens psykologi i grunndrag (The current psychology in its basic features ), in which it was the translation and adaptation of a work by William McDougall. From 1935 to 1941 he worked as a career counselor at the job center Oslo. Then he performed service in the Norwegian Armed Forces in the UK.
After the war, he became a personal secretary of the Norwegian Defence Minister Jens Christian Hauge, 1947, he was appointed Secretary of State. How Hauge came Bryn on giving up the Norwegian neutrality policy; he recommended a participation of his country to NATO. From 1950 on, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister in the Norwegian North Atlantic Council. From 1952, Bryn was the first Norwegian ambassador in Bonn. Here he advocated a full membership of the Federal Republic of Germany in NATO, also against French reservations.
After Bryn was in 1954 appointed as Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo, he sat down on a for a strong Western orientation and integration of his country. He joined, among others, for the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Norway. In January 1958 he was appointed Ambassador of Norway in Yugoslavia, a country that was international in focus because of its criticism of the policies of the Soviet Union. In 1963 he left Belgrade to switch to Bern, where he was Chairman of the embassy of his country for two years. After a three-year period as a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1965-1968) he was in Morocco to 1971 Ambassador.