Per Edvin Sköld (25 May 1891 – 13 September 1972) was a
Swedish Social Democratic
Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...
politician. As a Minister for Agriculture during the 1930s crisis,
Minister of Commerce and Industry,
Minister for Defence during the war and Minister for Finance he was known as the Social Democratic Party's trouble-shooter.
Sköld is the father of
Margareta Biörnstad
Margareta Biörnstad (23May 1928 – 1November 2019), was a Swedish Archaeology, archaeologist. She was Sweden's first female Swedish National Heritage Board#National Antiquarians, National Antiquarian () from 1987 to 1993.
Personal life
Biö ...
,
Nils Sköld and Per Sköld.
In popular culture
In the Swedish television movie, ''Four Days that shook Sweden – The Midsummer Crisis 1941'', from 1988, he is played by Swedish actor
Carl Billquist
Carl Folke Billquist (19 May 1933 – 24 May 1993) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 60 films and television shows between 1961 and 1993.
Partial filmography
* ''Lyckodrömmen'' (1963) - Fabian Widefjäll
* '' All These Women'' (1964) - T ...
.
References
Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians
Ministers of finance of Sweden
Ministers for defence of Sweden
1891 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Swedish politicians
Politicians from Malmö
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