Nils Edén

Nils Edén ( born August 25, 1871 in Piteå, † June 16, 1945 in Stockholm) was a Swedish historian, politician and Prime Minister of Sweden ( Sveriges Statsminister ).

Studies and professional career as a professor of history

The son of a school headmaster, after obtaining his education in Luleå in 1889 to study history at the University of Uppsala.

His PhD Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. ) with a thesis entitled The organization of the central government during the earlier era Wasa 1523-1594 ( Om central brisk ringens organization under the äldre Vasatiden 1523-1594 ) was in 1899 awarded Geijer price.

He was then appointed to the faculty in 1899 and then in 1903 as an associate professor of history at the University of Uppsala. As such, he soon made ​​a name for himself as an expert in the history of Sweden from the 16th and 17th century. From 1909 to 1920 he was then Associate Professor and Chair of History at the University of Uppsala.

Political career

Member of Parliament

Even as a teacher, he began to deal with current political issues such as the Union with Norway and the solution of military question. He put his students in 1901 also provides an argument for the introduction of compulsory military service in order to replace the century-old and outdated military division work. Linked to this, he also spoke out for the introduction of universal suffrage, which was connected at that time with the theme of military question.

His real political career began in 1908 with the election of deputies of the Second Chamber ( Andra kammaren ) of the Reichstag, where he ( Frisinnade Landsföreningen ) represented the interests of the Radical Party. In 1911 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Committee of the Reichstag.

Liberal group and party chairman

After the election of Karl Staaff as Prime Minister, he was first in 1912, his successor as Chairman of the Liberal parties in the Second Chamber. After the death Staaffs on 4 October 1915, he was also his successor as Chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party, the predecessor of today's Liberal People's Party ( Folkpartiet liberal erna ).

As such, he represented the interests of the right wing of the party, especially in matters of defense policy, in contrast to the wing of the free-church movements among the later Prime Minister Carl Gustaf Ekman.

Prime Minister from 1917 to 1920

After the general election in 1917 was the first former liberal-conservative President of the Second Chamber and longtime President of the Government of the province of Jämtland, Johan Widén, commissioned to form a government. After this, however, failed to form a government, King Gustav V convened on October 19, 1917 Nils Edén for Prime Minister.

As such, he formed a coalition government of the Liberal Coalition Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Party, its chairman Karl Hjalmar Branting he appointed finance minister in his cabinet. His term was marked by the question of the introduction of universal suffrage. In particular, because of the fear of contagion of the Russian Revolution of February 1917 on Sweden and the post-war conditions in Germany and other countries increased the pressure for further democratization and the introduction of universal suffrage. However, this universal suffrage was not introduced until 1921 in Sweden.

Following the decision of the Reichstag to join the League of Nations, which came into being on 10 January 1920, his government resigned on March 10, 1920. Successor as Prime Minister was Branting.

Later years of life

After his resignation as Prime Minister, he was appointed President of the Government of Stockholm County. This office he retained until 1938 as well as its mandate as a deputy of the Reichstag. However, because of the prohibition policy of his party he joined in 1923 out of the Liberal Coalition Party and founded his own Liberal Party.

Publications

In addition to his dissertation he published as a historian in particular the following works:

  • The svensk - norska unionsförfallningens tillkomst, 1894
  • Kiel Freden och communions, 1894
  • Gustaf Adolf riksdagsordning, 1902
  • The svenska riksstyrelsens reorganization 1594-1692, 1901
  • The svenska central brisk ringens UTVECKLING till collegial organization (1604-1632), Uppsala 1902
  • Erna reason för Karl X Gustaf incurred på Poland, 1905

Web links, and background literature

General biographical information

  • Biography in Nordisk Familjebok, 1907
  • Biography in Nordisk Familjebok, 1923
  • Biographies of the Prime Minister
  • Members of the Swedish governments 1900-1925

Background literature

Louis De Geer sen. | Arvid Posse | Carl Johan Thyselius | Robert Themptander | Gillis Bildt | Gustaf Åkerhielm | Erik Gustaf Boström | Fredrik von Otter | Erik Gustaf Boström | Johan Ramstedt | Christian Lundeberg | Karl Staaff | Arvid Lindman | Karl Staaff | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld | Carl Swartz | Nils Edén | Hjalmar Branting | Louis De Geer jun. | Oscar von Sydow | Hjalmar Branting | Ernst Trygger | Hjalmar Branting | Rickard Sandler | Carl Gustaf Ekman | Arvid Lindman | Carl Gustaf Ekman | Felix Hamrin | Per Albin Hansson | Axel Pehrsson - Bramstorp | Per Albin Hansson | Tage Erlander | Olof Palme | Thorbjorn Fälldin | Ola Ullsten | Thorbjorn Fälldin | Olof Palme | Ingvar Carlsson | Carl Bildt | Ingvar Carlsson | Göran Persson | Fredrik Reinfeldt

  • Prime Minister (Sweden)
  • University teachers ( Uppsala University )
  • Historian
  • Reichstag (Sweden)
  • Folkpartiet - liberal erna Member
  • Landshövding
  • Member of the Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets Academies
  • Born in 1871
  • Died in 1945
  • Man
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