Erik Herman Kling was a Swedish politician and diplomat.
12 Facts About Herman Kling
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Herman Kling served as a member of the Riksdag for the Swedish Social Democratic Party and as minister for justice from 1959 to 1969.
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Herman Kling was born on 12 July 1913 in Vastanfors, Sweden, the son of August Herman Kling and his wife Hilda.
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Herman Kling passed studentexamen in 1933 and received a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1938.
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Herman Kling worked as an extraordinary notary in Stockholm City Court in 1938 and he became an assistant in 1941.
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Herman Kling then worked as acting assessor in 1942, as vice assessor in 1946 and as head of the Lagbyra in the Ministry of Agriculture in 1945.
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Herman Kling worked as an acting director general for administrative affairs in 1947 and as State Secretary in the Ministry for Civil Service Affairs in 1950.
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Herman Kling was then Director General and head of the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development from 1956, minister without portfolio from 1957 to 1959 and minister for justice and head of the Ministry of Justice from 1959 to 1969.
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Herman Kling was succeeded by Lennart Geijer as minister for justice, in connection with all ministers requesting dismissal on the resignation of Prime Minister Tage Erlander and Olof Palme's accession on 9 October 1969.
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Herman Kling then served as ambassador and head of the Embassy of Sweden in Copenhagen from 1969 to 1973 and as ambassador in Lisbon from 1973 to 1979.
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Herman Kling served as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Swedish National Debt Office from 1952 to 1956, of AB Atomenergi from 1956, as vice chairman of Sveriges allmanna hypoteksbank from 1954 to 1957 and as a member of the Forsta kammaren from 1962 to 1969.
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Herman Kling was interred at S:t Pauli northern cemetery in Malmo on 28 June 1985.