15 Facts About Ernst Trygger

Ernst Trygger was a Swedish jurist, professor and conservative politician.

Ernst Trygger served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1923 to 1924.

Ernst Trygger served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1928 to 1930 in the government of Arvid Lindman.

Ernst Trygger was a member of the first chamber of the Swedish Riksdag from 1898 to 1937, and leader of the conservatives in that chamber from 1913 to 1933.

Ernst Trygger was born on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, the Swedish capital.

Young Ernst made an astonishing career at Uppsala University, where he became Professor of Law in 1889.

In 1891, Ernst Trygger married Signe Soderstrom, with whom he went on to have three children.

In 1909, Ernst Trygger became leader of a conservative group in the first chamber.

At the time of king Gustav V's last power demonstration during the "Courtyard Crisis" of 1914, Ernst Trygger was secretly a royal advisor.

However, after the constitutional reforms leading to equal suffrage, Ernst Trygger accepted the new, more democratic, political landscape.

Ernst Trygger had had a chance to reach this position already in 1920, but this was prevented by Lindman, who rather saw an unpolitical government before an upcoming election.

Leader of a minority cabinet, Ernst Trygger tried to reach a solution with broad acceptance through "intelligent adjustment".

The confidence in Ernst Trygger's cabinet regarding international issues had been somewhat damaged after an incident in the autumn of 1923.

Ernst Trygger renewed the education of Law at Uppsala university and was known as a brilliant lecturer.

Ernst Trygger died in 1943, at the age of 85, from complications after having broken his leg.