1941 in Sweden

← 1940 1939 1938 1941 in Sweden → 1942 1943 1944
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1941 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1941 in Sweden

Incumbents

• King – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson ^[1]
• Cabinet –
  • Minister for Justice – Karl Gustaf Westman
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs – Christian Günther
  • Minister for Foreign Trade –
    • Fritiof Domö (until 7 March)
    • Hermann Eriksson (after 7 March)
  • Minister for Defence – Per Edvin Sköld
  • Minister for Health and Social Affairs – Gustav Möller
  • Minister for Finance – Ernst Wigforss
  • Minister for Rural Affairs – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
  • Minister for Infrastructure – Gustaf Andersson

Events

• Enskilda Bank receives $4.5M from Germany & allegedly acts as a purchasing agent for German bonds and securities. ^[2]
• 20 January - The first trolleybus line in Stockholm begins to operate. ^[3]
• 22 January - Victor Hasselblad registers the Hasselblad Camera Company ^{[4] [5]}
• 4 March - British commandos carry out attacks on Narvik, Norway via Sweden
• 22 June - Midsummer crisis: Political crisis over the start of Operation Barbarossa
• 25 June - 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.
• July - A fully-equipped German division crosses Sweden from Norway to Finland. ^[6]
• 17 September - Swedish navy experiences its worst disaster ever in Harsfjarden ^[7]

Births

• 3 February - Monica Nordquist, actress (died 2017)
• 13 February - Bo Svenson, actor
• 28 April - Ann-Margret, actress
• 15 June - Essy Persson, actress
• 19 June - Magnus Harenstram, actor
• 9 July - Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, modern pentathlete
• 13 September - Jan-Åke Edvinsson, ice hockey administrator (died 2022)
• 29 September - Thomas Hellberg, actor (died 2023)

Deaths

• 3 January - Henning Ohlson, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 8 April – Gulli Petrini, women's rights activist (b. 1867)
• 3 May – Selma Ek, operatic soprano (b. 1856)
• 15 May – Anna Lindhagen, politician (b. 1870)

See also

• Timeline of Sweden during World War II
• History of Sweden

References

1. "Sweden". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
2. Scherberger, R. R.; Kaess, H.; Brückner, S. (September 1975). "[Studies on the action of an anticholinergic agent in combination with a tranquilizer on gastric juice secretion in man]". Arzneimittel-Forschung. 25 (9): 1460–1463. ISSN   0004-4172. PMID   26.
3. "Stockholm" (in Swedish). Swedish Tramway Society. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
4. "Our story – Hasselblad company history". Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
5. "Our story – Hasselblad company history". Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
6. Knirsch, Peter (2019-03-04), "Summary of Economic Relations" , Economic Warfare or Détente, Routledge, pp. 86–98, doi:10.4324/9780429035197-7, ISBN   978-0-429-03519-7 , retrieved 2025-02-24
7. "Adrian English". www.histarmar.com.ar. Retrieved 2022-07-19.