Carl Persson

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National Police Commissioner Carl Persson, Per-Gunnar Vinge from the Swedish Security Service and public prosecutor Lars Ringberg examines part of the Nazi organization's seized weapons store in 1965.

Carl Johan Gunnar Persson (14 December 1919 – 6 November 2014) was a

Gothenburg and Bohus from 1979 to 1980.[3]

Early life

Persson was born on 14 December 1919 in Kvidinge,

Career

Persson did his clerkship in Södra Åsbo and Bjäre Judicial District from 1942 to 1945, and became a Legal Clerk in

tingsrätt secretary in the Södra Åsbo and Bjäre Judicial District from 1948 to 1949 (acting in 1947) and as an assessor in 1951. He became hovrättsråd in 1961.[4]

Persson was notary and secretary in Second Committee on Civil Law (Andra lagutskottet) of the

State Secretary from 1958 to 1964 and then served as National Police Commissioner and head of the Swedish National Police Board from 1964 to 1978. Persson also served as president of the Interpol from 1976 to 1980 and then as Governor of Halland County in 1978, as well as Governor of Gothenburg and Bohus County
from 1979 to 1980.

He was a member of the International Health Care Affairs Committee from 1958, a delegate of the

county council from 1962 to 1970, the Organizing Committee of the Bailiffs System (Exekutionsväsendets organisationsnämnd) from 1964 to 1969 and the investigation of the headship of the Karolinska Hospital in 1978.[5]

Furthermore, Persson was chairman of the natural resource delegation of the Coordinating Board of the Swedish Research Councils (Forskningsrådsnämndens naturresursdelegation), Emergency Services Commission (Räddningstjänstkommissionen), the Theft Investigation, National Bacteriological Laboratory (Statens bakteriologiska laboratorium) Investigation, the Investigation of Nuclear Power Preparedness from 1987 to 1989, the Delegation for Patient Transport by Helicopter from 1989 to 1991, chairman of the Committee for Teaching of the hospital's Expansion from 1981 to 1990 and the Disaster Commission (Katastrofkommissionen) from 1982 to 1990.[3] Persson was also chairman of the board of Kabi-Vitrum, Kabi Gen, Cea, and ABAB from 1970 to 1985. He was vice chairman of Gota Finans from 1985 to 1989, chairman of the Swedish Carnegie Institute from 1982 and consultant in the Swedish-Soviet working group for investigations of Raoul Wallenberg from 1991.[3]

He published his

memoirs, Utan omsvep ("Head-on") in 1990.[2]

Personal life

In 1943, he married Kerstin "Titti" Holmdahl (1919–2015), the daughter of chief physician Carl Holmdahl and Ida (née Björck).[3] He had four children,[2] including Ingrid (born 1944).[4]

Death

Persson died on 6 November 2014, at the age of 94. He is buried at Djursholm's Cemetery.[6]

Bibliography

  • Persson, Carl G.; Sundelin, Anders (1990). Utan omsvep: ett liv i maktens centrum (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt.
    SELIBR 7155256
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  • Persson, Carl G.; Sundelin, Anders (1991). Utan omsvep: ett liv i maktens centrum (in Swedish) (New ed.). Stockholm: PAN/Norstedt. .

References

  1. ^ Rundkvist, Fredrik (2014-11-07). "Förre rikspolischefen Carl Persson är död". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2014-11-30.
  2. ^ a b c "F d rikspolischefen Carl Persson död". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). TT. 2014-11-07. Retrieved 2014-11-30.
  3. ^
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  6. ^ "Carl Johan Gunnar Persson". www.finngraven.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 May 2019.
Civic offices
Preceded by
None
National Police Commissioner
1964–1978
Succeeded by
Preceded by
William Higgitt
President of Interpol
1976–1980
Succeeded by
Jolly Bugarin
Preceded by Governor of Halland County
1978–1979
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Erik Huss
Governor of Gothenburg and Bohus County
1979–1980
Succeeded by
Åke Norling