15 Facts About Carl Lidbom

Carl Lidbom served as minister of commerce and industry from 1975 and 1976 and as Ambassador of Sweden to France from 1982 to 1992.

Carl Lidbom passed studentexamen in 1944 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947 and a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1950.

Carl Lidbom did his clerkship in Sollentuna and Farentuna territorial jurisdiction from 1950 to 1953 and worked as an extra legal clerk in the Svea Court of Appeal in 1954, as court secretary in Lindes and Nora territorial jurisdiction in 1955 and as deputy secretary and acting secretary in the Labour Court from 1956 to 1958.

Carl Lidbom worked as an expert in the Ministry of the Interior in 1959 and in the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in 1960.

Carl Lidbom was assessor in the Svea Court of Appeal in 1961, director in the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in 1963, deputy director-general in the Ministry of Justice in 1965 and director there in 1966 and acting director-general for legal affairs there in 1967.

Carl Lidbom was then director-general for legal affairs there from 1968 to 1969 and he was appointed became Hovrattsrad in 1969.

Carl Lidbom served as a minister without portfolio from 1969 to 1975 and was minister of commerce and industry and head of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from 1975 to 1976.

Carl Lidbom was a member of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats from 1974 to 1982.

Carl Lidbom then served as Swedish Ambassador to France from 1982 to 1992, the same year his wife died.

Carl Lidbom was assistant teacher in law at Stockholm University from 1959 to 1965 and served as an expert in negotiations, among other things in the Council of Europe and in the International Labour Organization from 1961 to 1965, and as an expert in the Constitutional Preparation and in Tax Punishment Law Inquiry from 1966 as well as the County Democracy Inquiry.

Carl Lidbom was replacement for the deputy chairman of the Labour Court from 1968 to 1969, and had international assignments, among others thing in the Nordic Council, the Council of Europe, OECD, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and in the United Nations.

Some time later, on 9 March 1989, Carl Lidbom was called to account for his actions before the Committee on the Constitution.

In 1950, Carl Lidbom married Lena Hesselgren, the daughter of district judge Ove Hesselgren and Malin.

Carl Lidbom later came to write a book about the love of his handicapped wife where he told openly about his infidelity.

Carl Lidbom died on 26 July 2004 and was buried at Kungsbrolunden next to Turinge Church in Turinge-Taxinge Parish.