Per Ahlmark
| Per Ahlmark | |
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| Minister for Employment | |
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In office 8 October 1976 – 7 March 1978 |
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| Prime Minister | Thorbjörn Fälldin |
| Preceded by | Ingemund Bengtsson |
| Succeeded by | Rolf Wirtén |
| Deputy Prime Minister | |
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In office 8 October 1976 – 7 March 1978 |
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| Prime Minister | Thorbjörn Fälldin |
| Preceded by | Gunnar Sträng |
| Succeeded by | Ola Ullsten |
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15 January 1939 , Sweden |
| Political party | Liberal People's Party |
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| Occupation | Politician |
Per Axel Ahlmark (born 15 January 1939) is a Swedish writer and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978. He also served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.
Per Ahlmark was born in , Sweden, as the son of the professor in medicine Axel Ahlmark and the dentist Gunvor Berglund. He completed upper secondary education at Södra Latin in Stockholm and earned a BA in political science from in 1964.
Ahlmark joined the Liberal Youth of Sweden in 1960 and was elected chairman of the organization the same year. He served as chairman of the Liberal Youth until 1962 and as a member of the board of the Liberal People's Party from 1960 to 1978. He was elected a member of the upper house of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1969 (representing the constituency of Örebro County) and as a member of the lower house from 1969 to 1970 (representing the constituency of ). Following the unicameral reform in Sweden in 1970/1971, Ahlmark served as a member of the unicameral parliament until 1978. He also served as a member of the Council of Europe from 1971 to 1976, and as deputy chairman of the Martin Luther King Fund from 1968 to 1973.
On 7 November 1975, Ahlmark succeeded Gunnar Helén as leader of the Liberal People's Party. from 1975 to 1978. From 1976 to 1978, in the first non-socialist government in Sweden in forty years, Ahlmark served as Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister. On 7 March 1978, Ahlmark retired from party politics due to personal reasons. From 1978 to 1981 he served as chairman of the board of the Swedish Film Institute.
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