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Carl Johan Gunnar Persson (14 December 1919 – 6 November 2014) was a

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and

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. Persson served as the National Police Commissioner of the

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from 1964 to 1978. His highest profile investigations during his tenure as National Police Commissioner included the hijacking of Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 to Bulltofta Airport in 1972, the

Norrmalmstorg robbery The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term ''Stockholm syndrome''. It occurred at the Norrmalmstorg Square in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973 and was the first criminal event in Sweden ...

in 1973, and the

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by the

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in 1975. Persson also served as the president of the

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from 1976 to 1980 and as

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from 1978 to 1979 and the Governor of the former county of

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from 1979 to 1980.

Career

Persson was born in Kvidinge,

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, Sweden, the son of captain Carl Johan Persson and his wife Anni (née Vallin). He passed ''

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'' in

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in 1938 and received a

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degree from

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal in 1945. Persson served as a '' tingsrätt'' secretary in the Södra Åsbo and Bjäre Judicial District from 1948 to 1949 (acting in 1947) and as an assessor in 1951. He became ''

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'' in 1961. Persson was notary and secretary in Second Committee on Civil Law (''Andra lagutskottet'') of the

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from 1949 to 1952, and an expert in the

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in 1954, and in the

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from 1954 to 1955. Persson was head of the ''lagbyrå'' in the Ministry of the Interior in 1955 and became head of the Legal Department in 1957. He was State Secretary from 1958 to 1964 and then served as National Police Commissioner and head of the

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from 1964 to 1978. Persson also served as president of the

from 1976 to 1980 and then as

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in 1978, as well as Governor of Gothenburg and Bohus County from 1979 to 1980. He was a member of the International Health Care Affairs Committee from 1958, a delegate of the

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in 1959 and 1961, and chair of the Nordic Commission on the common labor market for doctors and dentists from 1958 to 1962. Persson was chairman of the Mental Health Care Council (''Mentalsjukvårdsberedningen'') 1959-1962, the organization of body and mental health care in

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or ''län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the n ...

from 1962 to 1964, the

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merging with the

Gothenburg and Bohus County Gothenburg and Bohus County ( sv, Göteborgs och Bohus län) was a county of Sweden until 1997, when it was merged with Skaraborg County and Älvsborg County to form Västra Götaland County. The county was named after the city of Gothenburg a ...

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from 1962 to 1970, the Organizing Committee of the Bailiffs System (''Exekutionsväsendets organisationsnämnd'') from 1964 to 1969 and the investigation of the headship of the

Karolinska Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital ( sv, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna Municipality, Solna and Huddinge. The ...

in 1978. Furthermore, Persson was chairman of the natural resource delegation of the Coordinating Board of the Swedish Research Councils (''Forskningsrådsnämndens naturresursdelegation''), Emergency Services Commission (''Räddningstjänstkommissionen''), the Theft Investigation, National Bacteriological Laboratory (''Statens bakteriologiska laboratorium'') Investigation, the Investigation of Nuclear Power Preparedness from 1987 to 1989, the Delegation for Patient Transport by Helicopter from 1989 to 1991, chairman of the Committee for Teaching of the Hospital's Expansion from 1981 to 1990 and the Disaster Commission (''Katastrofkommissionen'') from 1982 to 1990. Persson was also chairman of the board of Kabi-Vitrum, Kabi Gen, Cea, and ABAB from 1970 to 1985. He was vice chairman of Gota Finans from 1985 to 1989, chairman of the Swedish Carnegie Institute from 1982 and consultant in the Swedish-Soviet working group for investigations of

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from 1991. He published his

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, ''Utan omsvep'' ("Head-on") in 1990.

Personal life

In 1943, he married Kerstin "Titti" Holmdahl (1919–2015), the daughter of chief physician Carl Holmdahl and Ida (née Björck). He had four children, including Ingrid (born 1944). Persson died on 6 November 2014, at the age of 94. He is buried at

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's Cemetery.

Bibliography

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Persson, Carl 1919 births 2014 deaths Swedish jurists Chiefs of police Governors of Halland County Governors of Gothenburg and Bohus County Swedish memoirists Lund University alumni