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Fälldin III Cabinet
The third cabinet of Thorbjörn Fälldin ( sv, Regeringen Fälldin III) was the cabinet and Government of Sweden from 22 May 1981 to 8 October 1982. The cabinet was a coalition minority government consisting of the Centre Party and the Liberal People's Party. The cabinet was led by Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin of the Centre Party who had resigned on 5 May 1981 following the withdrawal of the Moderate Party The Moderate Party ( sv, Moderata samlingspartiet , ; M), commonly referred to as the Moderates ( ), is a liberal-conservative political party in Sweden. The party generally supports tax cuts, the free market, civil liberties and economic liber ... from the second cabinet of Thorbjörn Fälldin. Thorbjörn Fälldin was reappointed on 22 May 1981 but as head of a two-party minority government. The cabinet resigned on 8 October 1982 following defeat in the 1982 general election. The cabinet was succeeded by Olof Palme's second cabinet. Ministers ...
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Thorbjörn Fälldin
Nils Olof Thorbjörn Fälldin (24 April 1926 – 23 July 2016) was a Swedish politician. He was Prime Minister of Sweden in three non-consecutive cabinets from 1976 to 1982, and leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985. On his first appointment in 1976, he was the first non-Social Democrat Prime Minister for 40 years and the first since the 1930s not to have worked as a professional politician since his teens. He was also the last Prime Minister to not be from the Social Democrats or Moderate Party. Early life Fälldin was born in Högsjö parish, Ångermanland, the son of the farmer Nils Johan Fälldin and his wife Hulda (née Olsson). He grew up in a farming family in Ångermanland, and, in 1956, he and his wife, as a newlywed young couple, took over a small farm. However, the farming authorities did not approve the purchase, as the farm was considered too small and too run down for production, and so refused to provide farm subsidies. This fight led him into ...
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Deputy Prime Minister Of Sweden
The deputy prime minister of Sweden ( sv, Ställföreträdande statsminister) is the deputy head of government of Sweden. The incumbent deputy prime minister is Ebba Busch. The Swedish constitution allows the prime minister to appoint one of the ministers in the cabinet as deputy prime minister ( sv, ställföreträdande statsminister, sometimes unofficially known as ''vice statsminister''), in case the prime minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties. If a deputy prime minister has not been appointed, the minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time (and if there are several with equal experience the one who is oldest) takes over as head of government (these are marked in ''italic'' in the table below). A deputy prime minister can only serve as prime minister in a temporary function, as the resignation of a prime minister automatically includes the entire Cabinet, and the Instrument of Government requires the Speaker of the Riksdag to di ...
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Ingemar Eliasson
Elis Ingemar Eliasson (born 30 March 1939) is a Liberal People's Party (Sweden), Swedish Liberal People's Party politician with a long and diverse career, having served as government minister, county governor, member of the Parliament of Sweden, Parliament and royal court official. Education and career Ingemar Eliasson was born in the village of Visnums-Kils, in Värmland County's Kristinehamn Municipality. He holds a Master of Science in business and economics. In 1976, Eliasson became Undersecretary of State, and served as such until 1980, when he became Ministry of Employment (Sweden), Minister of Employment. Following a career as member of the Parliament from 1982 where he was parliamentary leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1985 until 1990. At 1990 he became List of governors of Värmland County, Governor of Värmland County, serving as such until 2002. On 1 September the next year, Eliasson was appointed Marshal of the Realm (Sweden), Marshal of the Realm, the hi ...
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Ministry Of Employment (Sweden)
The Ministry of Employment ( sv, Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet) is a ministry in the Swedish government responsible for labour market, labour law and the work environment. The Ministry is also responsible for the work of advancing gender equality and human rights at national level. Moreover, the Ministry is responsible for efforts to increase integration, combat segregation, racism and discrimination, and strengthen the rights of children and LGBT people. The Swedish Ministry of Employment has two ministers as of November 2022. The Minister for Employment and Integration, Johan Pehrson, is head of the Ministry. Paulina Brandberg is Minister for Gender Equality and Deputy Minister for Employment. The ministers also have political advisers on staff who assist them in policy work, providing background material, political assessments, planning and coordination, and media contacts. The Ministry has an Office of the Director-General for Administrative Affairs, two secretariats and six d ...
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Karin Söder
Karin Ann-Marie Söder (née Bergenfur; 30 November 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a Swedish Centre politician. She was the first woman in Sweden to be elected the leader of a major political party. She headed the Swedish Centre Party from 1985 to 1987. She was also one of the first female foreign ministers in the world. Biography Söder was born in Frykerud in Kil Municipality, Värmland. Having graduated from secondary school in Gothenburg, she studied in Falun, and worked as a teacher, first in Värmland and later in Täby, north of Stockholm, where she was a member of the local council from 1963 to 1971. She also sat on the Stockholm County Council from 1969 to 1973. She died in Täby in 2015. Political career Ascendancy In 1971, Söder was elected a Member of the Swedish Parliament, a position she held until 1991. The same year she became a member of parliament, she also became the second vice leader of the Centre Party. When Sweden got a centre-right government under C ...
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Minister For Health And Social Affairs (Sweden)
The Minister of Health and Social Affairs or Social minister (Swedish: ''Socialminister'') is the chief of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Sweden. All Ministers for Health and Social Affairs have been Head of the Ministry, except in 2014–2017 when the Minister for Social Security, Annika Strandhäll, was appointed to be the head of the ministry, as the office of Minister for Health and Social Affairs was temporarily abolished in the Löfven I Cabinet The first cabinet of Stefan Löfven ( sv, Regeringen Löfven I) was the cabinet of Sweden between 2014 and 2018. It was a coalition government, consisting of two parties: the Social Democrats and the Green Party. The cabinet was installed on 3 O .... In 2017, Strandhäll got promoted to the office of Minister for Health and Social Affairs. List of Head of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs {{DEFAULTSORT:Minister For Health And Social Affairs (S ...
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Carl Axel Petri
Carl Axel ("Acke") Henrik Petri (12 August 1929 – 3 December 2017) was a Swedish politician and judge. Petri studied law and assumed the chief judgeship in the Administrative Court of Appeal in Jönköping in 1976, then stepped down to become chief justice on the Göta Court of Appeal in 1987, on which he served until 1996. Petri was a cabinet member under prime minister Thorbjörn Fälldin from 1979 to 1982, leading the Ministry of Energy until 1981, when he was named Minister for Justice. Early life Petri was born on 12 August 1929 at Djupadals House in Ronneby Municipality, Sweden, the son of consul Carl Petri and his wife Maud (née Wrede). Petri grew up in Växjö where he also passed ''studentexamen''. He received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1953.> Career Petri did his clerkship from 1953 to 1955 and worked as an extra legal clerk (''fiskal'') in the Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal in 1956. He then served in different parliamentary committees ...
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Minister For Justice (Sweden)
The Minister for Justice ( sv, justitieminister) is the justice minister of Sweden and head of the Ministry of Justice (Sweden), Ministry of Justice. The current Minister for Justice is Gunnar Strömmer of the Moderate Party. History The office was instituted in 1809 as a result of the constitutional Instrument of Government (1809), Instrument of Government promulgated in the same year. Until 1876 the office was called Prime Minister for Justice ( sv, justitiestatsminister), similar to the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs ( sv, utrikesstatsminister). Until 1840, the Prime Minister for Justice also served as a member of the Supreme Court of Sweden, Supreme Court. Following the ministry reform in 1840, the Prime Minister for Justice became head of the newly instituted Ministry of Justice (Sweden), Ministry of Justice. In 1876 the office proper of Prime Minister of Sweden was created and at the same time the Minister for Justice was ...
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Jan-Erik Wikström
Jan-Erik Wikström (born 11 September 1932) is a Swedish publisher and politician, who served as Minister for Education between 1976 and 1982. His father, Börje Wikström, was a pastor in the Swedish Evangelical Mission (EFS) and his mother, Essy Wikström, was an elementary school teacher. Wikström was head of the publishing house Gummessons from 1963 to 1976. He was elected into the Swedish Parliament in 1970, representing the People's Party (subsequently the Liberals). He became Minister for Education in the Fälldin I Cabinet in 1976, and remained on that post in the cabinets Fälldin II, Ullsten and Fälldin III, with a brief stint as acting Minister of Commerce and Industry in 1981. When the Social Democratic second Cabinet of Olof Palme took over after the 1982 Swedish general election, Wikström left the government. He was appointed Governor of Uppsala County in 1992, and held the position until his retirement in 1997. Wikström has been married three times: to ...
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Minister For Education (Sweden)
The Minister for Education ( sv, utbildningsminister) is the education minister of Sweden and the head of the Ministry of Education and Research. The current Minister for Education is Mats Persson of the Liberals. History As a result of the ministry reform in 1840, the Ministry of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs ( sv, Ecklesiastikdepartementet) was instituted. The head of the ministry was the Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs, with the responsibility of culture, the Church of Sweden, research and education. In 1968, the Ministry of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs changed its name to the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs ( sv, Utbildningsdepartmentet), today called the Ministry of Education and Research. The head of the Ministry of Education and Research is the Minister for Education. List of officeholders Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs (1840—1967) *1840–1840 Albrecht Elof Ihre (1797–1877) *1840–1842 Samuel Grubbe (1786 ...
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Rolf Wirtén
Rolf Wirtén (born 4 May 1931) is a Swedish politician who held various ministerial posts, including the minister of economics and the budget, in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Wirtén was born on 4 May 1931. He was a member of the Liberals. In 1978 he was named the minister for gender equality and the minister of immigration. In addition, he was the minister of labor between 1978 and 1980 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin. In 1980 Wirtén was appointed minister of budget and next year he was made the minister of economics in the second cabinet led by Thorbjörn Fälldin. During his term Sweden experienced devaluation in 1981. He reported that while serving as minister the Swedish economic policy had been designed on the Keynesian principles. In 1997 Wirtén was the head of a commission which investigated the allegations about the diamonds of Jewish people stolen by the Nazis Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for Nationa ...
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Minister Of Budget (Sweden)
Minister of Budget may refer to: * Minister of Budget (Belgium) * Minister of Budget (Italy) * Minister for the Budget The Minister for the Budget ( sv, Budgetminister) was a member of the government of Sweden. The minister for the budget was the head of the Ministry of the Budget from 1976 to 1982 which was primarily responsible for budget regulation as well as t ...
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