Björn von der Esch
Carl Gösta Björn Joachim von der Esch ( born January 11, 1930; † 6 March 2010) was a Swedish politician of the Moderate samlingspartiet and Kristdemokraterna.
Biography
From the ash was first naval officer and court marshal and lay judges, before he settled down as a farmer in Västerljung. Later he also studied business administration at the University of Uppsala in 1972 and put his defense before. A wider public in Sweden, he became known as the CEO of free radio station Radio Nova in Vagnhärad.
His political career began as the candidate of Moderata samlingspartiet 1991 with the collection as a member of the Reichstag, where he was Nachrücker by Per Westerberg, who had become Minister of Economic Affairs. The Reichstag he was a member until 1994. In the referendum on Swedish membership in the European Union in 1994, he belonged to the opponents of joining, he saw no advantages at a membership in the European Economic Area for Sweden. In the subsequent general election, he was number 2 of the EU motståndarna, tvärpolitisk rikslista, but suffered a defeat, lost his seat in the Reichstag and failed in 1995 with his candidacy for the European Parliament. In 1995 he resigned from the Moderata from samlingspartiet.
Between 1998 and 2006 he was again a member of the Reichstag and took there the interests of Kristdemokraterna. He was also a substitute member of the Euro Europe von 1998 to 2002. In 2003 he was a board member of the Citizens' Movement Medborgare mot EMU, which expressed itself in the citizen survey from September 14, 2003 against a Swedish membership of the European Monetary Union. In the referendum, only 2,453,899 voters ( 42.0 percent) were in favor of the candidate and thus for the introduction of the euro, while 3,265,341 voters ( 55.9 percent) voted against it, so that Sweden as a currency, the Swedish krona maintained.
In 2008, he became vice chairman of the Euro-skeptic party Junilistan and stood for the European elections of 2009 to No. 2 in the candidate list. In the election, however, the party won only 3.55 percent of the vote and thus not only lost 10.92 percentage points compared to the 2004 European elections, but all three seats in the European Parliament.