16 Facts About Ove Rainer

Anders Ove Rainer was a Swedish civil servant and politician.

Ove Rainer served as minister for justice from 1982 and 1983.

Ove Rainer was state secretary and director-general of the Swedish Postal Agency from 1973 to 1982.

Ove Rainer passed studentexamen in 1944 and obtained a Candidate of Law degree from Stockholm University College in 1949.

Ove Rainer did his clerkship at Sollentuna and Farentuna judicial districts from 1949 to 1951 and worked as an extra legal clerk in Svea Court of Appeal in 1952.

Ove Rainer was an expert in the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs from 1958 to 1960, an assessor in the Svea Court of Appeal in 1959 and head of the legal bureau in the Ministry of Justice in 1962.

Ove Rainer served as acting director general for Administrative Affairs in 1964, was appointed state secretary in 1965 and Hovrattsrad in 1969.

Ove Rainer then served as director-general of the Swedish Postal Agency from 1973 to 1982 when he was appointed minister for justice.

Ove Rainer became a member of the Social Democratic Party only after he was made justice minister in the second cabinet of Olof Palme.

Ove Rainer resigned from office in 1983 due the reports of his using legal tax loopholes.

On 9 November 1983 Prime Minister Olof Palme and Ove Rainer made a press conference where the latter announced his resignation from the office.

Prime Minister Olof Palme, who kept a low profile and hitherto avoided commenting on the course of events, immediately arranged for Ove Rainer, who had long been a good friend of his, to become a justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden.

Ove Rainer served as expert in the Nordic joint committee concerning the legal community.

Ove Rainer was chairman of the joint organization for EDP in the legal system, the 1967 police investigation, the committee for criminological treatment research, the correctional treatment commission, the crime Commission, the mass media concentration inquiry and the energy commission.

Ove Rainer served as chairman of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association from 1973 to 1978.

Ove Rainer died on 27 January 1987 and was interred at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm on 11 June 1987.