page_title: Dag Hammarskjöld
section_title: Named structures
hierarchical_section_title: Dag Hammarskjöld / Legacy / Named structures
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Dag Hammarskjöld centre, Övre Slottsgatan 2, Uppsala This is a photo of a protected building in Sweden, number 21300000013449 in the RAÄ buildings database.
context_page_description: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. Hammarskjöld still remains the youngest person to have held the post, being only 47 years old when he was appointed in 1953. His second term was cut short when he died in the crash of his DC-6 airplane in Northern Rhodesia while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis. He is the only person to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
  Hammarskjöld has been referred to as one of the two best secretaries-general of the United Nations, and his appointment has been mentioned as the most notable success for the UN. U.S. president John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld "the greatest statesman of our century."
context_section_description: Libraries:
  The Dag Hammarskjöld Library, a part of the United Nations headquarters, was dedicated on 16 November 1961 in honour of the late Secretary-General.
  Uppsala University Library: There is also a Dag Hammarskjöld Law Library at his alma mater, Uppsala University.
  Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Library at the Mindolo Ecumenical Centre in Kitwe,  Zambia.
  Buildings and rooms:
  The Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated has a student dormitory named after Dag Hammarskjöld.
  Columbia University: The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University has a Dag Hammarskjöld Lounge. The graduate school is dedicated to the principles of international peace and cooperation that Hammarskjöld embodied.
  Stanford University: Dag Hammarskjöld House, on the Stanford University campus, is a residence cooperative for undergraduate and graduate students with international backgrounds and interests at Stanford.
  The Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, has a room named after him.
  Dag Hammarskjöld Stadium is the main football stadium of Ndola, Zambia. Hammarskjöld's flight crashed in the outskirts of Ndola.
  Dag Hammarskjöld College: founded in Columbia, Maryland, in 1972, educated international students from 1972–1974. The concept that international relations are relationships between individuals, and that the better we understand each other, the better chance there is for world peace, was the centerpiece for this college.  The college admitted students from both undergraduate and postgraduate levels while they lived in an international community.
  Makerere University in Uganda has Dag Hammarskjöld Hall of residence for graduate students.
  Hammarskjold Middle School in East Brunswick, New Jersey. It was established in 1961 and is one of the top-rated schools of New Jersey.
  Dag Hammarskjold Middle School in Wallingford, Connecticut.  It was built in 1961.
  Streets:
  Hammarskjoeld Drive is in Ndola, Zambia.
  Dag Hammarskjöldsleden is a road in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  The Dag Hammarskjöld centre in Uppsala (housing the secretariat of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation)
  Dag Hammarskjölds Gade is a street in Aalborg, Denmark.
  Dag Hammarskjölds Väg is a street in Lund, Sweden.
  Dag Hammarskjölds Väg is at about 8.2 km one of the longest streets in Uppsala, Sweden. Several other streets in Sweden share this name.
  Dag Hammarskjølds vei is a residential street in Fyllingsdalen, in Bergen, Norway.
  Dag Hammarskjölds Allé is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  The headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) in Santiago, Chile, lies on Avenida Dag Hammarskjöld.
  The headquarters of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Society for International Cooperation, GIZ), is on Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg in Eschborn, Germany.
  Hammarskjöldplatz is the wide square to the north entrance of the Messe Berlin fairgrounds in Berlin, Germany.
  Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza is a public park near the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City; several of the surrounding office buildings are also named after him, like:
  One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
  There is a public square in Haedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina named after him.
  Dag Hammarskjöldhof is a street and a shopping center in the town of Utrecht, Netherlands.
  Dag Hammarskjöldlaan is a street in the town of Castricum, Netherlands.
  Hammerskjöldstraße is a street in Bremen, Germany, close to Ghandistraße and Martin-Luther-King-Straße.
  Dag Hammarskjöldhof is a street in the town of Gouda, Netherlands.
  Dag Hammarskjöldlaan is a street in the town of Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands.
  Hammarskjöldstraat is a street in the town of Hoofddorp, Netherlands.
  Dag Hammarskjöldsvei street in Fyllingsdalen, Bergen, Norway
  Hammarskjöld Road is a road in the town of Harlow, UK.
  Hammarskjöld Drive in Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  Dag Hammarskjöld is a street in Tunis, Tunisia.
  Dag-Hammarskjöld-Straße is a street in Kassel, Germany.
  Schools: Several schools have been named after Hammarskjöld, including Hammarskjold Middle School in Ea
caption: The Dag Hammarskjöld centre in Uppsala
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