Background
Hichens-Bergström was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of the high councillor Richard Bergström and Jenny, née Glimstedt as well as brother of the opera singer Margareta Bergström-Karde.
Hichens-Bergström was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of the high councillor Richard Bergström and Jenny, née Glimstedt as well as brother of the opera singer Margareta Bergström-Karde.
Uppsala University.
Hichens-Bergström received a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1937 and carried out his clerkship at Södersysslets judicial district from 1937 to 1938. In 1938 he became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and served in San Francisco in 1939, and the year after that in Washington, District of Columbia where he became legation secretary in 1943. In 1944 Hichens-Bergström became second secretary at the Foreign Ministry, first secretary in 1946, first embassy secretary in Paris in 1948, Bern in 1949, Moscow in 1951 and was acting embassy counsellor there in 1952.
He was director at the Foreign Ministry from 1953 to 1956 and deputy head of the political department from 1956 to 1959.
He was ambassador in Tehran and Baghdad from 1959 to 1963 and in Kabul from 1960 to 1963. Hichens-Bergström was head of the political department at the Foreign Ministry from 1964 to 1967, envoy in Oslo from 1968 to 1973 as well as in Rome and Valletta from 1973 to 1979.
He had a special assignment for the Swedish National Bank in Washington, District of Columbia 1941-1943 and was representative of the aviation negotiations with the Soviet Union and with other countries 1945-1947. Hichens-Bergström was the secretary of the Swedish delegation at the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 and 1948 as well as in the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1948.
He had various missions in Geneva in 1950, 1951, 1954-1958 and was the secretary and adviser at the Nordic Foreign Ministers Meetings 1953-1956 and 1964-1967.
During 1953-1959 he was a teacher at the Swedish Defence University. Hichens-Bergström also had several consulting assignments for the Swedish industry.
Hichens-Bergström was representative of the United Nations General Assembly from 1964 to 1967, an adviser in the 1965 defense investigation, a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matter from 1965 to 1967, chairman of the Swedish delegation at the European Security Conference in Geneva from 1973 to 1974 and was permanent representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization from 1975 to 1979.