Geijer Scandal
| Lennart Geijer | |
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| Minister for Justice | |
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In office 14 October 1969 – 8 October 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Olof Palme |
| Preceded by | Herman Kling |
| Succeeded by | Sven Romanus |
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| Born |
Johan Lennart Geijer 14 September 1909 Ystad, Sweden |
| Died | 16 June 1999 (aged 89) , Sweden |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer |
Johan Lennart Geijer (14 September 1909 – 16 June 1999), was a Swedish politician and lawyer. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Geijer affair and for being the Minister for Justice who himself negotiated with the robbers and terrorists in the Norrmalmstorg robbery, the aircraft hijacking at Bulltofta and the bombing of the West German embassy.
Geijer was born in Ystad, Sweden and was the son of postmaster Åke Geijer and Anna Sylvan. He came from a bourgeois family in Ystad, but was radicalized in the early 1930s, when he studied law in Lund and lived with Waldemar Bülow, August Strindberg's old friend. Geijer passed studentexamen in Karlskrona in 1928. During the years of study in Lund in the late 1920s, early 1930s, he was a member of the Swedish Clarté League and had contacts with radicals in Lund at the time, not least Tage Erlander. Geijer's radicalism changed into a more explicitly socialist direction. He received a Candidate of Law from Lund University in 1933, Licentiate of Laws in 1957 and Juris Doctor in 1958. Geijer did his clerkship in Vemmenhögs, Ljunits and Herrestad's hundred judicial district from 1933 to 1935. He was the head of Hyresgästföreningen's legal bureau in 1936 and ombudsman at the Swedish Union of Clerical and Technical Employees in Industry from 1939 to 1957 and lawyer at the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees 1957 to 1966.
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