Hjalmar Branting

Hjalmar Branting
16th Prime Minister of Sweden
In office 10 March 1920 – 27 October 1920 (231 days)
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Nils Edén
Succeeded by	Gerhard Louis De Geer
In office 13 October 1921 – 19 April 1923 (1 year, 188 days)
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Oscar von Sydow
Succeeded by	Ernst Trygger
In office 18 October 1924 – 24 January 1925 (98 days)
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Ernst Trygger
Succeeded by	Rickard Sandler
Personal details
Born	(1860-11-23)23 November 1860 Stockholm
Died	24 February 1925(1925-02-24) (aged 64) Stockholm
Political party	Social Democrats
Spouse(s)	Anna Branting (née Jäderin)
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Karl Hjalmar Branting (23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (1907–1925), and Prime Minister during three separate periods (1920, 1921–1923, and 1924–1925). When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden. When he took office for a second term after the general election of 1921, he became the first socialist politician in Europe to do so following elections with universal suffrage. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 with Christian Lous Lange.

He was also minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs.

Branting was born on November 23, 1860 in Stockholm, Sweden.^[1] He studied at the University of Uppsala. He was married to Anna Branting. Branting died on February 24, 1925 in Stockholm, Sweden from unknown causes, aged 64.

References

1. Robertson, J. M. (2003). History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century, Part 2. Kessinger Publishing. p. 487. ISBN 0-7661-3955-7.

Other websites

• Nobel Committee information on 1921 Laureates Archived 2004-08-07 at the Wayback Machine