Arvid Lindman
Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman ( born November 19, 1862 in Uppsala, † December 9, 1936 in London, Croydon ) was a Swedish Rear Admiral, the Conservative politician and Prime Minister of Sweden.
Career
The son of a factory director began initially from 1882 to 1892 a career as a naval officer whose peak he reached with his appointment as rear admiral of the reserve in 1907.
After leaving the Navy service, he was managing director of the 1892 wood and steel industry Group AB Iggesunds Bruk in Hälsingland. After that, he was from 1903 to 1923 held the same position in the Group AB Strömbacka Bruks. At the same time, he became in 1904 Director General of the state-owned telephone company Televerket and held that post until 1907.
Political career
MP and Minister
In July 1902, he initially turned down the offer of Erik Gustaf Boström, enter as finance minister in his cabinet.
In 1905 he was, however, elected to the First Chamber of the Diet. He then joined in August 1905 as Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of Christian Lundeberg one. This office he held only until the resignation Lundebergs on 8 November 1905.
Prime Minister from 1906 to 1911
After the resignation of the government of Charles Staaff because of the unresolved question of suffrage, he was appointed by King Oscar II to succeed him as Prime Minister on 29 May 1906. From 1907 he was Head of the Ministry of War.
Lindman, who formed a moderately conservative government, like its predecessors Lundeberg and Staaff tried to resolve the suffrage issue. In an electoral reform finally universal suffrage for men was introduced in 1907 (with certain restrictions) for the Second Chamber of Parliament, and also the first chamber was partially democratized. The class antagonisms remained large, and the general strike of 1909 deepened the division between socialists and liberals, on the one hand and conservatives on the other.
Lindman government continued through several reforms in industry, school and social policy. At the same time he tried to resolve the question of defense by appointing a defense committee, the expansion of the Navy and an international strengthening of Sweden, through agreements with the North and Baltic Sea countries.
By enforced by his government electoral reform but won in the general election in 1911 Liberals and Social Democrats in the majority. For this reason, Lindman resigned on October 7, 1911.
Opposition leader and Foreign Minister
Subsequently he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Diet. Here he was from 1912 to 1935 Chairman of the Group of Allmänna Valmansförbundet (General voters fret). As such, he beat Gustav Hjalmar Hammarskjöld both V. and Carl Swartz ago as Prime Minister to prevent the appointment of Ernst Tryggers, the much more conservative leader of the right faction in the First Chamber.
Under Swartz Lindman worked from March to October 1917 as Foreign Minister.
After a new electoral reform in the years 1918-1921, which finally brought women's suffrage, he began modernizing the general electorate and its federal election campaigns. To this end, he used not only aircraft to reach campaign places, but also election posters.
1921 Lindman sat together with other leaders such as Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting as a signatory of a draft law for the establishment of the State Institute for Racial Biology.
Prime Minister from 1928 to 1930
After the hard-fought election campaign of 1928, which gave the Social Democrats and the Conservatives gains losses, King Gustav V appointed him on October 1, 1928 the Prime Minister. However, he was only able to form a minority government, since liberals and Liberals rejected a government involvement. During his reign, he sought, in particular, the completion of the numerous strikes and lockouts during the period of the emerging world economic crisis. On June 6, 1930, he was forced to resign as prime minister after Liberals and Social Democrats had its plans to increase the grain tax rejected.