Axel Gjöres

Axel Gjöres (1889–1979) was a Swedish social democrat politician who served in different government posts. He was the minister of supply between 1941 and 1947 and minister of commerce and industry between 1947 and 1948.

Axel Gjöres
Minister of Commerce and Industry
In office
1947–1948
Minister of Supply
In office
1941–1947
Prime MinisterPer Albin Hansson
Preceded byHerman Eriksson
Succeeded byGunnar Sträng
Personal details
Born1889
Smedjebacken, Sweden
Died1979 (aged 89–90)
Västerleds, Sweden
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materStockholm School of Economics

Early life and education

Gjöres was born in Smedjebacken, Dalarna, 1889.[1] In 1905 he joined a social democratic youth club in his hometown.[1] He graduated from Brunnsvik Folk High School in 1909 and attended Stockholm School of Economics between 1917 and 1919.[2] He continued his studies in England.[2] There he studied the methods used in the cooperatives.[3]

Career

Gjöres began to work as a newspaper editor in 1918 which he held the until 1933.[2] In the period 1920–1931 he was also the editor of Kooperatören, a magazine published by the Swedish Cooperative Society.[2] He served as the chairman of the board in the Consumer Co-operative Union between 1926 and 1938.[4] From 1938 to 1941 he was acting director general of the Swedish Board of Trade.[2]

Gjöres was appointed minister of supply in 1941, replacing Herman Eriksson in the post.[5] Gjöres served in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson.[6] Gjöres' term ended in 1947, and he was replaced by Gunnar Sträng as minister.[7] Then Gjöres was appointed minister of commerce and industry in 1947.[1] However, he resigned from the post next year.[8]

Then Gjöres served as the director general of the Swedish Board of Trade in the period 1948–1954.[1] He was also a member of the Swedish parliament from 1943 to 1950.[1] Between 1945 and 1957 he was the chairman of the Nordic Association.[1]

Death

Gjöres died in Västerleds in 1979.[1]

References
  1. "Axel Gjöres – den förste efterkrigsordföranden" (in Swedish). TAM Arkiv. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020.
  2. "Biografisk notis / Gjöres, Axel" (in Swedish). KF. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. Marquis Childs (1936). Sweden. The Middle Way. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 48. OCLC 287421.
  4. Orsi Husz (2020). "The entrepreneur's dream. Credit card history between PR and academic research". In Johan Östling; Niklas Olsen; David Larsson Heidenblad (eds.). Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia. Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations. London: Routledge. p. 142. doi:10.4324/9781003019275. hdl:10138/325030. ISBN 9780367894559.
  5. Carl-Gustaf Scott (2002). "The Swedish Midsummer Crisis of 1941: The Crisis that Never Was". Journal of Contemporary History. 37 (3): 373. doi:10.1177/00220094020370030301. S2CID 159896889.
  6. John Gilmour (2010). Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7486-8666-7.
  7. Dankwart A. Rustow (1955). Politics of Compromise. A Study of Parties and Cabinet Government in Sweden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 156. doi:10.1515/9781400878581. ISBN 9781400878581.
  8. Olof Ruin (1989). Tage Erlander: Serving the Welfare State, 1946-1969. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-8229-7667-7.
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