Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson
Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson | |
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Minister of Commerce and Industry | |
In office 1 July 1920 – 27 October 1920 | |
Prime Minister | Hjalmar Branting |
Preceded by | Post created |
Succeeded by | Gösta Malm |
Personal details | |
Born | 30 May 1865 Stora Köpinge socken, Malmöhus County |
Died | 5 May 1925 Ystad | (aged 59)
Political party | Social Democrats |
Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson (30 May 1865 – 5 May 1925) was a
Biography
Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson came from humble working conditions. He was the son of shoemaker Nils Thorsson Viktor and Amalia Charlotta Pihlström. At the age of nine, he became an orphan, and was looked after by the parish officers and sold at child auction, where they offered children at sale.[1] That he would follow in his father's footsteps and be trained to cobbler was obvious; his journeyman he undertook, inter alia, in Copenhagen when he received a journeyman's certificate in Ystad. As a shoemaker, he worked in Stockholm, Uppsala and Sundsvall. In doing so, he began to agitate for improved conditions for the workers. Then he became known as a prominent figure of the Scanian Socialists, he boycotted by several employers and returned to his home town, Ystad, where he opened a shoemaker with his partner Anders Nordstrand.
Political career
In 1889, Thorsson was employed by the Social Democratic Party in southern Sweden as an agitator, and proved to be quite talented. In 1897 he campaigned against C. G. Ekman, which resulted in several trade unions affiliating themselves with the social democratic movement.
Thorsson was elected to the
In March 1920, the coalition government was dissolved when Thorsson could not agree with the Liberals in the government on municipal taxes. In
Thorsson again became Minister for Finance in
Legacy
Fredrik Ström wrote an account of Thorsson in the small volume Skomakaren, som blev kungens skattmästare, which was printed the year after Ström's death.
In Ystad, a bust of Thorsson was later set up in the city.
References
Notes
- ^ "[[Yvonne Hirdman]], Jenny Björkman, Urban Lundberg, Dick Harrison: "Sveriges historia 1920–1965"". Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
Printed sources
- Ström, Fredrik (1949). Skomakaren som blev kungens skattmästare: F. V. Thorsson. Deras liv blev bragd, 99-2921440-2 ; 19 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sv. missionsförb. 1458905.
- Wigforss, Ernst (1950–1954). Minnen (in Swedish). Stockholm: Tiden. 452589.
- Dahl Torsten, Bohman Nils, ed. (1954). Svenska män och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok. 7, Sibylla-Tjällgren (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. 53806.
Further reading
- Tidman, Yngve (1988). "Skomagarepågen som blev rikshushållare". Ystadiana (in Swedish). 1988: 141–161 : fotogr. 9168058.
- Uhlén, Axel (1996). "Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson: skomakare, parkföreståndare, riksskattmästare". Notiser från Arbetarnas kulturhistoriska sällskap (in Swedish). Stockholm : Arbetarnas kulturhistoriska sällsk., 1996: 192–198. 2245191.
- Vennerström, Ivar (1926). F.V. Thorsson: en minnesskrift (in Swedish). Stockholm: Tiden. 8074846.