Ernst Wigforss
| Ernst Wigforss | |
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Ernst Wigforss
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| Finance minister | |
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In office 1925–1926 |
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| Preceded by | Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson |
| Succeeded by | Carl Gustaf Ekman |
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In office 1932–1936 |
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| Preceded by | Felix Hamrin |
| Succeeded by | Vilmar Ljungdahl |
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In office 1936–1949 |
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| Preceded by | Vilmar Ljungdahl |
| Succeeded by | David Hall |
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| Born | 24 January 1881 Halmstad, Sweden |
| Died | 2 January 1977 (aged 95) Stora Hult, Båstad, Sweden |
| Political party | Social Democratic Workers' Party |
| Occupation | Docent |
Ernst Johannes Wigforss (24 January 1881–2 January 1977) was a Swedish politician and linguist (dialectologist), mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance. Wigforss became one of the main theoreticians in the development of the Swedish Social Democratic movement's revision of Marxism, from a revolutionary to a reformist organization. He was inspired and stood ideologically close to the ideas of the Fabian Society and guild socialism and inspired by people like R. H. Tawney, L.T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson. He made contributions in his early writings about industrial democracy and workers' self-management.
Born in the town of Halmstad in Halland in southwestern Sweden, Wigforss studied at Lund University from 1899, and published writings on political issues in this period. He completed a doctorate in 1913 with a dissertation on the dialect of south Halland, becoming docent in Scandinavian languages at the university the same year. He taught at the gymnasium in Lund (Lunds högre allmänna läroverk) 1911-1914 and as lecturer of German and Swedish at the Latin gymnasium in Gothenburg from 1914.
In 1919 Wigforss was elected as a Social Democratic member of the First Chamber of the Swedish Parliament, representing Gothenburg, and he became a member of various committees. He was appointed a member of the third cabinet of Hjalmar Branting in 1924, and after Branting's resignation in January 1925, became a member of Rickard Sandler's cabinet. He was made temporary Minister of Finance on 24 January 1925 when Fredrik Thorsson fell ill, and succeeded him on 8 May of the same year, following his death. The Sandler cabinet resigned on 7 June 1926.
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