13 Facts About Carl Swartz

Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz was a Swedish right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from March to October 1917.

Carl Swartz served as Minister for Finance from 1906 to 1911.

Carl Swartz married Dagmar Lundstrom in 1886, with whom he had three children, Erik, Brita and Olof.

Carl Swartz was born on 5 June 1858 in Norrkoping, Ostergotland County, the son of factory-owner Erik Swartz and wife Elisabeth Forsgren.

Carl Swartz came to play a large role in his home town, not least culturally.

Carl Swartz was chairman of the Board of Directors of, amongst others, Sweden's private Central Bank between 1912 and 1917.

Carl Swartz accepted the appointment more out of a sense of duty rather than personal desire for the office.

Carl Swartz was generally considered as a moderate and reasonable conservative, in the style of an old-fashioned and thoughtful mill-owner.

Carl Swartz forbade private bourgeois militias in advance of the 1 May 1917 demonstrations, in return for the Social Democratic Party's assurance that they would be responsible for maintaining order.

Carl Swartz quickly concluded negotiations with the Triple Entente powers, principally Great Britain, on imports from the west, which Hammarskjold had prevented.

Carl Swartz was irresolute and felt under pressure from his opponents and his solution was to wait for the spring election.

Gustav V attempted for a long time to avoid a breakthrough for parliamentarianism, but his wish to allow Carl Swartz to continue, despite the left-wing parties' success in the 1917 election was undermined by the involvement of Carl Swartz's son in a black marketeering scandal, a violation of existing rationing.

Carl Swartz was an eminent municipal figure and a generous philanthropist.