Per Albin Hansson was a Swedish politician,chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946,governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936,which he ended by forming a coalition government with his main adversary,Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp.
James Ryan was an Irish medical doctor,revolutionary and politician who served in every Fianna Fáil government from 1932 to 1965,successively as Minister for Agriculture (1932–1947),Health and Social Welfare,and Finance (1957–1965). He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Wexford from 1918 to 1922 and 1923 to 1965,and as senator from 1965 to 1969. He was a member of Sinn Féin until he joined Fianna Fáil upon that party's foundation in 1926.
Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. Previously,he served as minister of education from 1945 to 1946,and was a member of the Riksdag from 1932 to 1973. During his premiership,Sweden developed into one of the world's most advanced welfare states,with the "Swedish Model" at the peak of its acclaim and notoriety. His uninterrupted tenure of 23 years as head of the government is the longest ever in Sweden and in any modern Western democracy.
Karl Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) from 1907 until his death in 1925,and three times Prime Minister of Sweden. When Branting came to power in 1920,he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden. When taking office for a second term after the general election of 1921,he became the first democratic socialist head of government in Western Europe elected under universal suffrage. An early supporter of modern social democracy and democratic socialism,he led the SAP through a transformation from a radical socialist movement to Sweden's dominant party;the Social Democrats have been Sweden's largest party in every election since 1914,and formed government for 44 continuous years from 1932 to 1976.
Bo Östen Undén was a Swedish academic (J.D.),civil servant and Social Democratic politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Sweden 6–11 October 1946,following the death of Per Albin Hansson (1885-1946).
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was a German diplomat. During World War II,he served as an attachéfor Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. He tipped off the Danes about the Germans' intended deportation of the Jewish population in 1943 and arranged for their reception in Sweden. Danish resistance groups subsequently rescued 95% of Denmark's Jewish population. Israel has designated Duckwitz as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Carl Gustaf Ekman was a Swedish politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1911 to 1932,leader of the Freeminded People's Party between 1924 and 1932,and served as Prime Minister from 1926 to 1928 and again from 1930 to 1932.
Ernst Johannes Wigforss was a Swedish politician and linguist (dialectologist),mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance. Wigforss became one of the main theoreticians in the development of the Swedish Social Democratic movement's revision of Marxism,from a revolutionary to a reformist organization. He was inspired and stood ideologically close to the ideas of the Fabian Society and guild socialism and inspired by people like R. H. Tawney,L.T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson. He made contributions in his early writings about industrial democracy and workers' self-management.
Axel Alarik Pehrsson-Bramstorp was a Swedish politician and was Prime Minister of Sweden for a few months during 1936. As a parliamentarian he was known as Axel Pehrsson in Bramstorp,or just Bramstorp for short. In 1937 he officially added the name of his farm to his family name.
Folkhemmet is a political concept that played an important role in the history of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish welfare state. It is also sometimes used to refer to the long period between 1932 and 1976 when the Social Democrats were in power and the concept was put into practice,but also works as a poetic name for the Swedish welfare state. Sometimes referred to as "the Swedish Middle Way",folkhemmet was viewed as midway between capitalism and socialism. The base of the folkhem vision is that the entire society ought to be like a family,where everybody contributes,but also where everybody looks after one another. The Swedish Social Democrats' successes in the postwar period is often explained by the fact that the party managed to motivate major social reforms with the idea of the folkhem and the national family's joint endeavor.
The Minister for Defence of Sweden is a member of the Government of Sweden. The Minister heads the Ministry for Defence and is appointed and dismissed at the sole discretion of the prime minister of Sweden.
The third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson was the cabinet of Sweden between 13 December 1939 and 31 July 1945. It consisted of members from the Social Democratic Party,the Farmers' League,the People's Party and the National Organization of the Right. It was a national unity government formed for reasons of national stability during World War II,and its constituent parties represented 219 out of the 230 seats in the Parliament of Sweden since the 1936 general election. Two parties of the 1936–1940 parliament were kept out of the government,the pro-Soviet Communist Party and the Socialist Party,which veered between Communist and Nazi positions,and lost its parliamentary representation in 1940. After the 1940 general election,the government represented 227 out of the 230 seats in parliament,and after 1944 general election,215 out of 230.
Olivia Lovisa Nordgren née Larsdotter was a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. She is known as one of the key figures of the Social Democratic struggle against poverty in Sweden in the 1930s.
Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson was a Swedish politician and shoemaker. He was Minister for Finance during three separate periods,and Minister of Commerce and Industry in 1920.
The second cabinet of Per Albin Hansson was the cabinet of Sweden from 1936 to 1939. It was a coalition cabinet consisting of the two parties:Social Democrats and the Farmers' League.
Events from the year 1933 in Sweden
Herman Hurmevaara was a Finnish Social Democratic Party of Finland Member of Parliament. He was born in Kiuruvesi,and served in the Parliament of Finland from 1917 to 1919. In the 1920s,he lived in Sweden. In 1930,he was exiled from Sweden,and with his family he moved to the Soviet Union. During the Great Purge,Hurmevaara was arrested on charges of espionage and imprisoned on December 23,1937. He was later sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in Petrozavodsk. After the death of Joseph Stalin,he was rehabilitated in 1956.
The first cabinet of Tage Erlander was the cabinet and government of Sweden between 11 October 1946 and 1 October 1951. It was formed following the sudden death of Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on 6 October 1946.
Axel Gjöres (1889–1979) was a Swedish social democrat politician who served in different government posts. He was the minister of supply between 1941 and 1947 and minister of commerce and industry between 1947 and 1948.
Gustaf Andersson (1884–1961),also known as Gustaf Andersson i Rasjön,was a Swedish politician who served as the president of the Liberals party between 1935 and 1944 and also,as the minister of communications (transport). He was one of the members of the Riksdag,Swedish Parliament.
