Arvid Posse

Count Arvid Rutger Fredriksson Posse ( * February 15, 1820 at Rosendal Palace, Helsingborg Municipality, † April 24, 1901 in Stockholm) was a Swedish politician and Prime Minister of Sweden ( Sveriges Statsminister ).

Study and career

Posse graduated in 1835 to study law at the University of Lund, where he graduated in 1840. He was then judge on the aspirant Hovrätt and the district courts of Skåne County and Blekinge. He then became the Deputy District Judge ( Vice Häradshövding ). In 1846 he was appointed first to the officials at the Court of Appeal and then a year later a judge of the Court of Appeal.

In 1849 he retired from the Judicial Service, to devote himself to his Good Charlotte Lund agriculture and other businesses.

Political career

Member of parliament

Posse began his political career in 1856 with the election of the noble house in the Reichstag of the stands, where he represented the interests of the nobility until 1858. During this period he was also Chairman of the Banking Committee ( Bancoutskottet ).

In the noble house he was later 1862-1863 and Chairman of the Appropriations Committee ( Bevillningsutskottet ), where he was a strong supporter of free trade. As a parliamentarian, he was an opponent of electoral reform, because he feared thereby restricting the voting rights of large landowners.

In the noble house from 1865 to 1866 he was chairman of the Government Committee ( Statsutskottet ) and feared as such on the date of election law reform a bad future for Sweden by future majorities of farmers in Parliament. He was also the 1865-1868 President of the District Council of Malmo longer.

Despite his previous harsh criticism he was at the first meeting of the existing only from two chambers Reichstag in 1867 by the House of Commons Speaker of the agrarians and thus convenient for majority leader of the first chamber, which he as a representative of the administrative districts Herrestad and Ljunit in until 1881 Ystad belonged.

From this Agrariergruppe out under his chairmanship in 1867 was the party of countrymen ( Lantmannapartiet ), which was surprising in opposition to the government. For a long time, Posse was arguably the most prominent and influential member of the Reichstag.

From 1867 to 1875 he was again Chairman of the Government Committee and the special Parliament from 1871 Vice-Chairman of the Election Committee ( Särskilda Utskottet ).

Speaker of Parliament and Prime Minister

After the government reform of 1876, which led to Sweden in future only had a Prime Minister as responsible for the business of government, he was on March 20, 1876 Speaker of the House.

Following the resignation of Prime Minister Louis De Geer, he was on 19 April and in 1880 even Prime Minister of Sweden ( Sveriges Statsminister ). At the same time he was on December 7, 1880 to March 8, 1881 to the Minister of Finance.

As prime minister, he now was for the solution of important tasks that had existed since the parliamentary reform of 1867 and led to the resignation De Geers.

On the one needed the centuries-old division of the army work of reform, as the traditional structure of the farmers too much loaded. Secondly, the reform of property taxes ( Grundskatter ) was necessary, which had indirectly to do with the division being. First, a solution of the problems seemed possible, especially because he counted with the support of the old party friends.

1883 presented his government to the project in the Reichstag, which provided for a particular gradual reform of property taxes and the introduction of a voluntary professional army with government salaries. Surprisingly, however, he did not receive the necessary support of the House, especially as the party of countrymen rejected the reform.

For this reason Posse resigned as Prime Minister on 13 June 1883.

Subsequent offices

After his resignation as Prime Minister from 1883 to 1889 he was President of the Administrative Court of Appeal.

From 1882 to 1890 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Reichstag as a representative of the province of South Kalmar, but held increasingly important daily political decisions out. However, he agreed during the dispute between the advocates of free trade on one side and protectionism on the other side, against the imposition of import duties on grain.

In addition, he was in 1879 elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture, Fort shaft. He was also of the Royal Society of Marine officers since 1878 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Physical Geography in Lund as well since 1880.

Others

Posses niece Sigrid Lindström (born Posse ) ( 1856-1946 ) survived the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic as a passenger, first class.

Web links, and background literature

General biographical information

Posse, Arvid. In: Meyers Lexicon. 4th edition. Volume 13, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig, 1885-1892, p 273
Biography in Nordisk Familjebok, 1915

Prime Minister (Sweden)
Swede
Born in 1820
Died in 1901
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