Gustaf Ã…kerhielm
Baron Johan Gustaf Nils Samuel Åkerhielm af Margaret Lund (* June 24, 1833 in Stockholm, † April 2, 1900 ) was a Swedish politician and Prime Minister from 1889 to 1891.
Family
His parents were of Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Gustaf Åkerhielm and his wife Elisabeth Sophia anchor, daughter of a Norwegian landowner. Gustaf Åkerhielm married in 1860 Ulrika Gyldenstolpe Countess, with whom he had three children.
Military and diplomat
In 1851 he was a cadet in the Dragoon Corps of Royal Life Regiment, in 1854 a sub-lieutenant. In 1852 he passed the First State Examination and joined the management of the civil ministry. In 1856 he acted as Adjutant General Graf von Essen for the coronation of Tsar Alexander II in Moscow. In the same year he was attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Paris. In 1857 he finished second in the cabinet secretary for foreign correspondence, and took leave of his regiment. 1858 to 1859 he was Deputy Secretary of Legation in St. Petersburg, then secretary of the special embassy in Vienna. 1860 to 1863 he was secretary of legation in Copenhagen.
Political career
As head of the chivalry and nobility he was on the diets from 1859 to 1860 and from 1865 to 1866, where he voted for the replacement of existing objects representation by a bicameral system. 1867 to 1870 he was state auditor, came in 1870 in the Legal Affairs Committee and in 1871 chairman of the authority. In 1870, he was elected in the judicial district Södra Roslag, where was the ancestral home of Margaret Lund family in the Second Chamber, to which he belonged until 1875. From 1873 to 1874 he was Vice President of the Chamber, temporarily also chairman. In 1870, he was also in the Legal Affairs Committee and in 1871 in the Constitutional Committee.
As a member of the Reichstag, he campaigned for economy of the state, for a new military order and for the improvement in the new municipal laws. The acceptance of the Coin Convention 1873 was due to his initiative. On September 28, 1874, he became Minister of Finance. On May 11, 1875, he resigned in protest against the new conscription law.
1875 and 1884 he was elected by läns Stockholm county council as a member of the First Chamber, which is also from 1876 to 1877 for membership in the Committee on Legal Affairs, from 1879 to 1889 in the Banking Committee, which he chaired for many years, led. 14 years ( 1876-1889 ) he led the imperial administration of the national debt ( Riksgäldskontoret ). He focused more and more on the banking and government finance. As in 1877, the dispute over protective tariffs came to the fore, he joined the protectionists, because he saw a threat to agriculture and feared an expansion of foreign debt. Under the protectionist Ministry Gillis Bildt, he was appointed on 12 October 1889 Foreign Minister.
Prime Minister 1889-1891
On 12 October the same year he took over the post of prime minister. In this office he brought many improvements in the defense establishment on the way, but failed in a comprehensive reform of the army, which was linked to a tax reform, to the representatives of free trade in the Second Chamber. In the railway sector, he promoted stambanan the Norra, and Gällivarebanan passed into state ownership. Moreover, the reform of the mortgage banks was carried out, a new Law of the Sea was adopted and found a compromise on the issue of road maintenance. A law on the transfer of land with the assistance of loans for settlers who should make the forest areas of the crown in Norrbotten County cultivated, promoted the colonization of these areas.
At a meeting of the First Chamber on May 3, 1891 discussion of the government bill to extend the military service to 90 days, he said that one should " speak Swedish in both the East and the West" in the army. The opposition press interpreted this statement immediately as an affront to Norway. 34 members of the First Chamber declared on 11 May that it was not the intention of his statement, also let Åkerhielm deny this interpretation. Nevertheless, he was attacked in Sweden than in Norway, including to make for the upcoming Stortingswahl sentiment against the Union. On July 10, 1891 Åkerhielm resigned. Successor was the protectionist Erik Gustaf Boström.
In the election for the Second Chamber in the autumn of 1893 Åkerhielm was in his old constituency, the district court Södra Roslag re-elected. To her he was a member until 1895. On April 18, 1895, he was elected by the county council of Stockholm as a member of the First Chamber. In 1896 he was again at the Constitutional Committee.