Arvid Lindman

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Arvid Lindman
Knut Wallenberg
Succeeded byJohannes Hellner
Personal details
Born
Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman

(1862-09-19)19 September 1862
Österbybruk, Sweden
Died9 December 1936(1936-12-09) (aged 74)
Croydon, England
Cause of deathAircraft crash
Political partyGeneral Electoral Union
Spouse
Annie Almström
​
(m. 1888)​
Children3
EducationHudiksvalls högre allmänna läroverk [sv]
Alma materRoyal Swedish Naval Academy
OccupationStatesman
Military service
Branch/serviceSwedish Navy
Years of service1882–1892
RankRear admiral
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Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman (19 September 1862 – 9 December 1936) was a Swedish rear admiral, industrialist and conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1906 to 1911 and again from 1928 to 1930.[1][2] He has been described as one of the fathers of modern Sweden.[3]

He was also the leader of the conservative General Electoral Union (Allmänna valmansförbundet) between 1912 and 1935 as well as leader of Lantmanna- och borgarepartiet (a member party of the General Electoral Union) from 1913 to 1935, except for a short while during 1917 when he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs.[4]

His two tenures as prime minister, from 1906 to 1911 and from 1928 to 1930, spanned the introduction of parliamentarianism and universal suffrage.[5] Lindman married Annie Almström in 1888, with whom he had three children. He was a cousin of Alex Lindman.

Biography

Early life and career

Arvid Lindman was born in

Rear Admiral in the naval reserve.[6]

Outside his military carear, following his reisgnation from the Swedish navy, Lindsman worked in a Iggesund mill and became its director from 1892 to 1903.

Director-general of Televerket.[7][6] He was also in the boards of Huskvarna weapon factory, Wood Goods and Export Association and state auditor in Luossavaara-Kirunavaara.[6]

In 1902 he had declined the post as Minister for Finance in Boström's second cabinet.[8] He was elected to the First chamber in 1904 of the Gäfleborg county council.[6] Lindman was interpreted as a protectionist politician of the right wing of Swedish politics of the time. From 1911 to 1912 he represented Älfsborg county.[6] In the 1912 Swedish general elections he was elected to the second chamber.[6] started a political career in 1905 when he became both Ministry for Naval Affairs (for the Navy and the Coastal Artillery) in Lundeberg's broad-based cabinet and a member of the Riksdag's first chamber. He resigned in November of 1905 with the rest of the Lundeberg government.[6]

Prime minister

first past the post system, with implicit support for women's suffrage as well. Staaf's government resigned, and a new prime minister and government more akin to the interests of the king was searched. At first, Alfred Petersson in Påboda a farmer was asked but declined. Fredrik Wachtmeister also declined. Lindman was then asked, and he accepted. During the proposal of enacting the reforms. Lindman was appointed prime minister at head of a moderate-conservative government. Through great political skill Lindman managed to enact universal suffrage for male citizens[9] according to the principle of "double proportionality" – in both chambers of parliament – in 1907–09. His six-year government oversaw a number of reforms in the areas of industry, schools and social politics. A defence committee was appointed, decisions were made to build up the navy, and the international position of Sweden was confirmed in the Nordic and Baltic Sea agreements. Political and economic opposition resulted in the general strike
of 1909, but the strike failed, and Lindman's government was allowed to remain in power, ostensibly supported by the king.

Extended suffrage and

King about the creation of the Hammarskjöld and Swartz cabinets, with the goal of blocking the more hard-edged conservative leader of the first-chamber right, Ernst Trygger
.

Chairman of the General Electoral Union

During the years 1913-35, Lindman was chairman for the national organisation of right-wing parties, the General Electoral Union – the predecessor of the present

Social Democrats had controversially formed a coalition with some Communists and suffered great losses in the election, Lindman formed a right-wing government in minority, after the liberals and the Freeminded (pro-Prohibition liberals) had turned down the King's request for a broader center-right majority government. Among the things this government did, the calling of the conference on peace in the workplace (a move to try to end frequent strikes and lock-outs
) in 1928 is worth mentioning. The government resigned in 1930 after the Freeminded and the Social Democrats blocked the proposition for raised customs duty on grain, the goal of which was the strengthening of the agrarian sector. No party or union commanded a majority, which made the 1920s and early 1930s notoriously turbulent.

Arvid Lindman (left) at the courtyard of Stockholm Palace as his second cabinet takes office in 1928.

Lindman was a modern kind of party leader, who with involvement and eloquence turned directly to the voters. Both as an industrialist and as a politician he was energetic and goal-oriented. He was a pragmatic conservative without losing his principles and an effective political peace-broker, who sought a policy of compromise with his adversaries. From early on he was strongly opposed to nazism and fascism.[10][3] When his party's youth organisation started organising uniformed fascist action groups in the 1930s, he saw to it that they were expelled from the party [verification needed]. The "honest thanks over the battle lines" from the social democratic leader Per Albin Hansson when Lindman resigned as party leader in favor of the younger academic and professor Gösta Bagge in 1935 was an expression of the wide-ranging respect that he had.

Lindman died in an aircraft crash on 9 December 1936, when the Douglas DC-2 in which he was travelling crashed into houses near Croydon Airport just after taking off in thick fog.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Sweden" (in Swedish). World Statesmen. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Ett historiskt brott mot moderat tradition – Corren". www.corren.se (in Swedish). 12 December 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b Daunfeldt, Erik (21 June 2023). "SMEDJAN | Arvid Lindman: Sveriges sanna landsfader". Timbro (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  4. ^ PDF Gratis Arvid Lindman : en statsminister och hans tid (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  5. ^ Daunfeldt, Erik (21 June 2023). "SMEDJAN | Arvid Lindman: Sveriges sanna landsfader". Timbro (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "639-640 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 16. Lee - Luvua)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1912. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  7. ^ "KULTUR: Efter 100 år är demokratin ännu inte tryggad". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 31 August 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Arvid Lindman - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  9. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-052318-025732
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  10. ^ "S Arvid A Lindman". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  11. ^ "The Croydon Disaster", Flight magazine, 17 December 1936, p.663 (online archive version) retrieved 2010-05-20.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Naval Affairs
1905–1905 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Sweden
1906–1911 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Knut Wallenberg
 Minister for Foreign Affairs
1917–1917 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Sweden
1928–1930 		Succeeded by
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