Carl Johan Rappe

Baron Carl Johan Melcher Rappe (18 January 1918 – 7 January 2010) was a Swedish diplomat who served in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for several decades. After earning a law degree from Uppsala University in 1943, he joined the diplomatic service in 1945.

During his career he held postings in Warsaw, Helsinki, Pretoria, Tehran, Baghdad, and London, and served as Sweden's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City (1965–1967). He later served as ambassador in Bucharest, East Berlin, and Warsaw, and as envoy to Pretoria with accreditation to several southern African capitals. Toward the end of his career he represented Sweden at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Madrid from 1980 to 1981.