Minister for Justice (Sweden)

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The Minister for Justice is a cabinet level position in the Government of Sweden. The Minister for Justice is also head of the Swedish Ministry of Justice.^[1]

1 History
2 Ministers
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The position of 'Minister for Justice' (Swedish: Justiteminister) was preceded by that of 'Minister for Justice and State' (Swedish: Justitiestatsminister).

[edit] Ministers

[edit] Present minister

See also: Government of Sweden and Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt

Beatrice Ask

The present Minister for Justice is Beatrice Ask.

[edit] Previous Ministers for Justice and State

No.	Name	Began Service	Ended Service	Political party
1	Carl Axel Wachtmeister	1809	1810	?
2	Fredrik Gyllenborg	1809	1829	?
3	Mathias Rosenblad	1829	1840	?
4	Hans Gabriel Trolle Wachtmeister	1840	1840	?
5	Arvid Posse	1840	1840	?
6	Carl Törnebladh	1840	?	?
7	Lars Herman Gyllenhaal	1843	1844	?
8	Johan Nordenfalk	1844	1846	?
9	Arvid Posse	1846	1848	?
10	Gustaf Sparre	1848	1856	?
11	Claës Efraim Günther	1856	1858	?
12	Gerhard Louis De Geer	1858	1870	independent liberal
13	Axel Adlercreutz	1870	1874	independent conservative
14	Henrik Wilhelm Bredberg	1874	?	?
15	Edvard Carleson	1874	1875	independent conservative
16	Gerhard Louis De Geer	1875	1876	independent liberal

[edit] Previous Ministers for Justice

No.	Name	Began Service	Ended Service	Political party	Cabinet(s)
1	Gerhard Louis De Geer	1876	1879	?
2	Ludvig Teodor Almqvist	1879	1880	?
3	Nils von Steyern	1880	1888	?
4	Axel Bergström	1888	1888	?
5	Axel Örbom	1888	1889	?
6	August Östergren	1889	1896	?
7	Ludvig Annerstedt	1896	1901	?
8	Hjalmar Hammarskjöld	1901	1902	?
9	Ossian Berger	1902	1905	?
10	Gustaf Berg	1905	?	?
11	Karl Staaff	1905	1906	?
12	Gustaf Albert Petersson	1906	1911
13	Gustaf Sandström	1911	1914
14	Berndt Hasselrot	1914	1917	?
15	Steno Stenberg	March 1917	October 1917
16	Eliel Löfgren	October 1917	1920
17	Östen Undén	1920	1920
18	Assar Åkerman	1920	1920
19	Birger Ekeberg	1920	1921
20	Assar Åkerman	1921	1923
21	Birger Ekeberg	1923	1924
22	Torsten Nothin	1924	1926
23	Johan Thyrén	1926	1928
24	Georg Bissmark	1928	1930
25	Natanael Gärde	1930	1932
26	Karl Schlyter	1932	1936
27	Thorwald Bergquist	1936	1936
28	Karl Gustaf Westman	August 30, 1936	August 30, 1943
29	Thorwald Bergquist	August 30, 1943	July 31, 1945
30	Herman Zetterberg	July 31, 1945	1957
31	Ingvar Lindell	1957	1959
32	Herman Kling	1959	1969
33	Lennart Geijer	1969	1976
34	Sven Romanus	1976	1979
35	Håkan Winberg	1979	1981	Moderate Party	Thorbjörn Fälldin (III)
36	Carl Axel Petri	1981	1982	independent	Thorbjörn Fälldin (III)
37	Ove Rainer	1982	1983	Social Democratic Party	Olof Palme (II)
38	Anna-Greta Leijon (acting)	1983	1983	Social Democratic Party	Olof Palme (II)
39	Sten Wickbom	1983	1987	Social Democratic Party	Olof Palme (II) and Ingvar Carlsson (I)
40	Anna-Greta Leijon	1987	1988	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson (I)
41	Thage G. Peterson (acting)	1988	1988	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson (I)
42	Laila Freivalds	1988	October 4, 1991	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson (I) and Ingvar Carlsson (II)
43	Gun Hellsvik	October 4, 1991	October 7, 1994	Moderate Party	Carl Bildt
44	Laila Freivalds	October 7, 1994	September 21, 2000	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson (III)
45	Lena Hjelm-Wallén (acting)	September 21, 2000	October 16, 2000	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson (III) and Göran Persson
46	Thomas Bodström	October 16, 2000	October 6, 2006	Social Democratic Party	Göran Persson
47	Beatrice Ask	October 6, 2006	incumbent	Moderate Party	Fredrik Reinfeldt