{"id":4056,"date":"2026-10-14T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vandeman.org\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:42:04","slug":"andreas-fon-bekkerat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vandeman.org\/en\/andreas-fon-bekkerat\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas von Beckerath"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

On August 28, 2026, Andreas von Beckerath was named to head Sweden\u2019s newly created Foreign Intelligence Service (Sveriges utrikes underr\u00e4ttelsetj\u00e4nst, UND). The agency itself won\u2019t begin operations until January 1, 2027.

Andreas von Beckerath is officially presented as a career diplomat. In fact, he started out his career in the Military Intelligence and Security Service (Milit\u00e4raunderr\u00e4ttelse-ochs\u00e4kerhetstj\u00e4nsten, Must) of Sweden\u2019s Ministry of Defense. For a long stretch he worked under diplomatic cover, holding various posts at Swedish embassies.

In 1996, at the age of 26, Andreas von Beckerath graduated from Uppsala Universitet, where alongside studying economics he trained as a military translator from Russian. He later sharpened his Russian at courses run by the St. Petersburg State Economic University.

After finishing his studies, the military intelligence officer von Beckerath did an internship in Kyiv and worked at the English First language courses in Moscow. Starting in 1999, he worked under the cover of positions at Sweden\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as second secretary at Sweden\u2019s embassy in Romania in 2001-2002, at Sweden\u2019s permanent mission to the UN in 2002, and at Sweden\u2019s embassy in Moscow in 2002-2006. He later went on to serve as counselor at Sweden\u2019s embassy in Germany and then as minister-counselor at Sweden\u2019s embassy in the UK.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n