Felix Hamrin

Felix Teodor Hamrin ( born January 14, 1875 in Mönsterås, † November 27, 1937 in Jönköping ) was a Swedish politician and Prime Minister of Sweden.

Study and career

The son of a leather goods merchant graduated from business school in Gothenburg. Subsequently, he established a wholesale business in Jönköping, which he ran from 1903 to 1930. At times, he was also active in the Chamber of Commerce of Småland and Blekinge.

Political career

Reichstag deputy and Minister

Hamrin began his political career in 1911 with the election of deputies of the Second Chamber of the Diet. There he represented until 1914, the Liberal Association ( Frisinnade Landsföreningen ) for the constituency of Jönköping County.

From 1918 until his death in 1937, he was then a member of the First Chamber of the Diet. After the split of the Liberal Coalition Party in 1924, he joined the run of Carl Gustaf Ekman Frisinnade at Folkpartiet whose party chairman, he was later.

In June 1928 he was appointed by Prime Minister Ekman for trade ministers in his cabinet, where he remained until October 1928.

Prime Minister between 1932 and Liberal Party Leader

As Ekman had to resign because of the crisis to the Zündholzmonopolisten Ivar Kreuger one month before the general election on 6 August 1932 Hamrin was commissioned by King Gustav V as Prime Minister with the formation of a transitional government.

After the general election and a heavy electoral defeat of the Liberal Party, he resigned as Prime Minister on 26 September 1932. His 50 -day term of office, making it the shortest reign until today a Swedish Prime Minister. In that short time he made ​​an effort to stabilize the economy due to the global economic crisis and the collapse of Kreuger monopoly.

After Ekman in 1933 resigned as chairman of the Free Radical People's Party, Hamrin was his successor. After the union of liberal parties with the People's Party ( Folkpartiet ) he was from 1934 to January 1935 its first chairman.

Subsequently, he was from 1934 to 1937 President of the Government of Jönköping County.

Web links, and background literature

General biographical information

• Biography in Nordisk Familjebok, 1924
• Biography in Nordisk Familjebok, 1926
• Biographies of the Prime Minister
• Members of the Swedish governments 1925-1946

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)
• Folkpartiet - liberal erna Member
• Reichstag (Sweden)
• Swede
• Born 1875
• Died in 1937
• Man