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Louis Gerhard De Geer of Finspång (
July 18,
1818–
September 24,
1896) was a
Swedish statesman and writer.
De Geer was born at
Finspång manor. He was a lawyer, and in
1855 became president of the
Göta Hovrätt, or lord justice for the appellate court of
Götaland. From
April 7,
1858 to
June 3,
1870 he was Prime Minister of Justice. As a member of the nobility he took part in the Swedish
Riksdag of the Estates from
1851 onwards. From
1867 to
1878 he was the member for
Stockholm in the first chamber in the
New Riksdag, and introduced and passed many useful reforms.
His son
Louis De Geer was also prime minister of Sweden for a short period.
Architect of the New Riksdag
His greatest achievement was the reform of the Swedish representative system. The reforms introduced a bi-cameral elected parliament replacing the existing cumbersome and less democratic representation by estates, a hangover from the later Middle Ages. This measure was accepted by the
Riksdag in December
1865, and received the royal sanction on the
June 22,
1866. For some time after this De Geer enjoyed considerable popularity. He retired from the ministry in
1870, but took office again, as minister in 1875.
First Prime Minister
In
1876 he became the first
Prime Minister of Sweden and served until April
1880, when the failure of his repeated efforts to settle the armaments question again induced him to resign. From
1881 to
1888 he was Chancellor for the Universities of
Uppsala and
Lund. He was an advocate of free trade and economic liberalism and some argue laid the foundations for the strong economic growth in Sweden from 1870 to 1970.
Literary works
Besides several novels and aesthetic essays, De Geer has written a few political memoirs of supreme merit both as to style and matter, the most notable of which are:
Minnesteckning öfver A. J. v. Höpken (Stockholm, 1881);
Minnesteckning öfver Hans Järta (Stockholm, 1874);
Minnesteckning öfver B. B. von Platen (Stockholm, 1886); and his own
Minnen (Stockholm, 1892), an autobiography, invaluable as a historical document, in which the political experience and the matured judgments of a lifetime are recorded with singular clearness, sobriety and charm.
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