Hjalmar Mehr

Hjalmar Mehr
Hjalmar Mehr (right) with former Borgarråd Yngve Larsson inside 1963
Mayor of Stockholm
In office 1958–1966
In office 1970–1971

Hjalmar Leo Mehr (1910–1979) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, (1958–1966, 1970–1971) and governor of (1971–1977). He promoted many radical socialist welfare state policies but is mostly remembered and criticized for the redevelopment of Norrmalm, where a significant part of the old Stockholm was demolished.

Hjalmar Mehr's parents Sara and Bernhard Meyerowitch were Russian-Jewish revolutionaries who after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution fled to Sweden, where Hjalmar was born and named after Hjalmar Branting.