23 Facts About Ingvar Carlsson

Gosta Ingvar Carlsson was born on 9 November 1934 and is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996.

Ingvar Carlsson was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996.

Ingvar Carlsson served as Minister of Education from 1969 to 1973, as Minister of Housing in 1973 and again from 1974 to 1976, and as Minister of Environmental affairs from 1985 to 1986.

Ingvar Carlsson served as deputy prime minister from 1982 to 1986, and assumed office as Prime Minister of Sweden upon the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.

Ingvar Carlsson was born in Boras, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden and is the third son of the warehouse worker Olof Karlsson and Ida, nee Johansson.

At the age of 12, Ingvar Carlsson found his father dead on the floor of the coffee roastery where he worked.

Ingvar Carlsson has a diploma in business economics and a degree in political science from Lund University.

Ingvar Carlsson would receive an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 1989.

In 1965, Ingvar Carlsson attended Northwestern University in Illinois in the United States as a Fulbright scholar studying economics.

Ingvar Carlsson was deputy prime minister to Prime Minister Olof Palme when Palme was assassinated.

In 1990 the Ingvar Carlsson cabinet resigned after failing to gain a majority for its economic policy agenda, but was reinstated immediately with a slightly changed agenda.

Ingvar Carlsson was then succeeded as prime minister by Moderate leader Carl Bildt, who headed a new four-party right-wing cabinet.

The Social Democrats lost the elections in 1991, but Ingvar Carlsson returned to power after the elections in 1994.

On 19 December 1994, Ingvar Carlsson announced the decision not to recover the wreck of the MS Estonia, or even the bodies of the victims of the disaster.

Ingvar Carlsson pushed for Sweden to join the European Union, seeing it as necessary for Sweden to strengthen its economy, although other members of his party were sceptical of the idea.

Ingvar Carlsson's successor was long considered to be the then Minister of Equality and Deputy Prime Minister Mona Sahlin.

Ingvar Carlsson was elected on 15 March 1996 at the Social Democratic Party Congress as party leader and on 22 March 1996 he was elected Prime Minister.

Ingvar Carlsson was Chairman of the inquiry after the Gothenburg Riots of 2001 to investigate the events.

Ingvar Carlsson was the Chairman of the Independent Inquiry into United Nations actions during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Ingvar Carlsson is chairman of the Bergman Foundation Center on Faro.

Ingvar Carlsson's career has been shaped by the heritage of Olof Palme, with whom he worked closely, but his policies are more seen as being a continuation of the legacy established by Tage Erlander.

Twelve years prior to 2024, Ingrid was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and by 2024 Ingvar Carlsson had her placed in a nursing home in Tyreso, which he visits three times a week.

Ingvar Carlsson is a big supporter of football teams IF Elfsborg and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.