Odd Erik Lennart Engström (20 September 1941 – 18 May 1998) was a politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He was born in Silbodal,

Årjäng Årjäng is a locality and the seat of Årjäng Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 3,228 inhabitants in 2010. It is located around from the Norway-Sweden border and on the road between Karlstad and Oslo. In 1540 Årjäng was spelled ...

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, Sweden and was educated at

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. Engström served as one of two State Secretaries (the other was

Ulf Larsson Ulf Sigfrid "Uffe" Larsson (1 July 1956 – 28 September 2009) was a Swedish actor, revue artist, comedian and stage director. Ulf Larsson was born in Bromma, Stockholm, in 1956. In the early 1980s, he appeared in numerous television shows and s ...

) to Prime Minister

Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until ...

1982–1983. From 1983 he served as Finance Secretary of

Stockholm Municipality Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm ( sv, Stockholms kommun or ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It has the largest population of the 290 municipalities of the country, but one of the smallest areas, mak ...

. From 1988 to 1990 he served as deputy

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(Minister for Budget), and was the acting Minister for Finance for a short time in February 1990, after

Kjell-Olof Feldt Kjell-Olof Feldt (born 18 August 1931) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician who was minister of finance between 1983 and 1990. Previously, Feldt was assistant minister of finance from 1975 to 1976 and minister of commerce and industry ...

resigned. Engström then served as the

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 ...

from 1990 to 1991. After the electoral loss of 1991, he was a member of the

Parliament of Sweden The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and s ...

from 1991 to 1993, when he resigned from his seat. From 1995 he served as chairman of the board of investment company

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, where his friend

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was the major owner. He was married to Gunilla Engström and has one son and one daughter. Engström also did some amateur acting. In 1993 he had a small role in the TV series ''

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'', which was set in his native

Värmland Värmland () also known as Wermeland, is a ''landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are ...

. Engström died of a heart attack at age 56. (According to journalist

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he died the day before he wanted to give an interview about the real cause of the sinking of the

MS Estonia MS ''Estonia'' was a cruiseferry built in 1980 at the West German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. In 1993, she was sold to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the Ba ...

.)WDR5 interview, 26 sep 2002 -- rtsp://ras02.wdr.de/radio/radio5/real/neugier/FF2-Estonia-26092002.rm

References

1941 births 1998 deaths People from Årjäng Municipality Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats Swedish Ministers for Finance Deputy Prime Ministers of Sweden {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub