Carl Swartz
| Carl Swartz | |
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| 14th Prime Minister of Sweden | |
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In office 30 March 1917 – 19 October 1917 (203 days) |
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| Monarch | Gustaf V |
| Preceded by | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld |
| Succeeded by | Nils Edén |
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Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz 5 June 1858 Norrköping, Östergötland County |
| Died | 6 November 1926 (aged 68) |
| Political party | National Party |
| Alma mater |
Uppsala University, University of Bonn |
Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz (5 June 1858 – 6 November 1926) was a Swedish right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 30 March 1917 to 19 October 1917. He also served as Minister for Finance from 1906 to 1911. He married Dagmar Lundström in 1886, with whom he had three children, Erik, Brita and Olof.
Carl Swartz was born on 5 June 1858 in Norrköping, Östergötland County, the son of factory-owner Erik Swartz and wife Elisabeth Forsgren. After completing studies in Uppsala and Bonn, he returned to Norrköping to run the family business, tobacco producers Petter Swartz. He came to play a large role in his home town, not least culturally. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of, amongst others, Sweden's private Central Bank between 1912 and 1917. In 1917, he became the national university chancellor.
As Minister for Finance between 1906 and 1911, he implemented a number of reforms including integrated income- and property tax, which both became progressive. With the amalgamation of the right-wing groups of the Riksdag's lower chamber, Swartz became a member of the inner council of the newly formed Nationella Partiet (English: The National Party) in 1912.
During World War I he was a key figure in the Riksdag in his capacity as Chairman of the Standing Committee of Supply between 1915 and 1917. With the fall, due to external pressures and internal disharmony, of the government of non-party aligned Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, King Gustav V called on the party-political conservative Swartz to become Prime Minister. He accepted the appointment more out of a sense of duty rather than personal desire for the office. The new government's foremost task was to exercise a calming influence on the bourgeois which was worried, in anticipation of May 1, 1917, by rumours that the February Revolution in Russia would spread to Sweden.
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