Robert Themptander
Oscar Robert Themptander ( born February 14, 1844 in Stockholm, † January 30, 1897 ) was a Swedish politician and Prime Minister.
Study and career
The son of a lieutenant graduated in law at the University of Uppsala, where he graduated in 1863. Subsequently, he joined the civil service and was as committee secretary staff in the Registry of the Reichstag. In 1874, he was initially Counsel and then in 1878 director of the customs authority ( Generaltullstyrelsen ).
Political career
MP and Minister
Themptander began his political career in 1879 with the election of deputies of the Second Chamber of the Diet. He was initially representative of the Centre, but soon joined the Peasant Party ( Lantmannapartiet ) under Arvid Posse on. During his deputies time he was also from 1889 to 1890 chairman of the Banking Committee, 1891-1892 Committee on Agriculture and 1894-1895 of the land and marine transport committee.
Posse caught up with him on 7 December 1880 as minister without portfolio in his government. On March 8, 1881, he was the successor of farce Finance. This office he held under his successor Carl Johan Thyselius made up to 16 May 1884.
Prime Minister from 1884 to 1888
On 16 May 1884 he was himself Prime Minister and was the youngest by then Prime Minister of Sweden.
As has been his predecessor Louis De Geer, Posse and Thyselius he started with the solution of the important military and tax reform.
Themptander brought in 1885 the National Defence Act for adoption. However, he succeeded only with significant concessions to the majority in the Reichstag: After military law, a standing army was formed voluntarily recruited ordinary troops. In addition, however, each Swede was 20 years of service in the country and Seewehr committed for which he was prepared through short exercises. The new law came into force on 1 January 1887. Among other Themptander the Peasant Party had sake omitted a third of military property tax. This encouraged the party but also to demand not only for the complete repeal of this tax, but also the introduction of grain tariffs to protect agriculture.
In March 1887, the majority of the Second Chamber accepted the request for introduction of cereals and protective tariffs, sparked Themptander the Reichstag and achieved at the elections a majority that called for free trade. However, this decreased among ordinary parliamentary elections in the autumn of 1887, especially since the Supreme Court declared the election of the 22 free-trade representatives Stockholm on a technicality invalidated and the representatives of the protective policy for elected; in the First Chamber were increasing the followers of the Corn Laws by-election. Therefore, the Ministry Themptander submitted after the opening of the new Reichstag in January 1888 his dismissal one.
The king asked, given the not yet finally decided attitude of the majority of both chambers Gillis Bildt putting together a moderately schutzzöllnerisches Cabinet, which succeeded on February 6, 1888.
Subsequent offices
After his resignation as Prime Minister, he was President of the Government of Stockholm County. This office he held until 1896.
Then he was up to his death, director of the industrial group Trafik AB Grängesberg - Oxelösundää.