Andres Küng
Andres Küng (13 September 1945 – 10 December 2002) was a Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin. He was born in Ockelbo in Gävleborg County to a family of refugees from Soviet occupied Estonia.
Andres Küng
- Born
- 1945 · Ockelbo parish.
- Died
- 2002 · Slottsstadens församling.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- journalist · politician · writer · businessperson
- Education
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Honours
- Order of the White Star and 3rd Class
- Languages
- Swedish · Estonian
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Andres Küng (13 September 1945 – 10 December 2002) was a Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin. He was born in Ockelbo in Gävleborg County to a family of refugees from Soviet occupied Estonia.
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Andres Küng (1945–2002) was a businessperson, journalist and politician, among other activities, of Swedish nationality. The businessperson was born in Ockelbo parish and died in Slottsstadens församling.
Andres Küng was educated at Stockholm School of Economics. The businessperson held the position of member of the Swedish Riksdag and worked in Stockholm.
Languages used include Estonian and Swedish. Honours include Order of the White Star, 3rd Class.
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Küng was active in both Swedish politics (member of the People's Party – Liberals) and Estonian and Baltic émigré activities. He was the chairman of the Liberal Students Club of Stockholm between 1966 and 67. Later, he served as the Deputy Board member of the People's Party Youth League. During 1970–71, he was the acting Deputy member 1982 of Riksdag. Küng also participated in the Estonian Liberal Party in exile and several other organisations and campaigns for Baltic struggle for independence. He was a member of the party board for the Swedish Liberal Party from 1982 until 1991.
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Ockelbo parish.
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In November 1998, Andres Küng was awarded the Latvian Order of the Three Stars by the Latvian President Guntis Ulmanis. In February 1999, he was awarded the Estonian Order of the White Star by the Estonian President Lennart Meri.
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Andres Küng studied at Stockholm School of Economics. The recorded working language is Swedish and Estonian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Stockholm. Positions recorded include member of the Swedish Riksdag. Distinctions recorded are Order of the White Star, 3rd Class.
As he himself noted, Küng "published more than 50 books, most on the Baltic States, thousands of articles and held innumerable lectures on why Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should (and would) become independent again."
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 12
- Estland - en studie i imperialism, Aldus/Bonniers 1971
- Vad händer i Baltikum?, Aldus/Bonniers, 1973
- Förlovat och forlorat land. Reportage från Palestina, 1974
- Unelma vapaudesta, Passiivinen vastarinta nyky-Baltiassa, 1979
- Bruce Olson: Missionary or colonizer?, 1981
- Sådan är socialismen, Timbro, 1982
- Vindens barn: Om medlöperi förr och nu, Timbro, 1983
- A dream of freedom: Four decades of national survival versus Russian imperialism in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, 1940–1980
- Sverige och Estland: äntligen goda grannar?, 1991
- Kommunismen och Baltikum, 1999 ("Communism and the Baltic States", see online https://web.archive.org/web/20060504183740/http://www.rel.ee/swe/kommunism_och_baltikum.htm)
- Communism and Crimes against Humanity in the Baltic states, c 1999, refer https://web.archive.org/web/20140616162322/http://www.hot.ee/evlliit/okup_2.htm
- Ett liv för Baltikum : journalistiska memoarer. – Stockholm : Timbro, 2002. – 351 s. : ill. – (Estonian edition: Baltikumile elatud aastad : ajakirjaniku mälestused. – Tallinn, Olion, 2002.)
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