1. Per Axel Ahlmark was a Swedish politician and writer.
20 Facts About Per Ahlmark
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Per Ahlmark was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978.
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Per Ahlmark served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.
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Per Ahlmark completed upper secondary education at Sodra Latin in Stockholm and earned a BA in political science from Stockholm University in 1964.
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Per Ahlmark joined the Liberal Youth of Sweden in 1960 and was elected chairman of the organization the same year.
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Per Ahlmark served as chairman of the Liberal Youth until 1962 and as a member of the board of the Liberal People's Party from 1960 to 1978.
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Per Ahlmark was elected a member of the upper house of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1969 and as a member of the lower house from 1969 to 1970.
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Per Ahlmark served as a member of the Council of Europe from 1971 to 1976, and as deputy chairman of the Martin Luther King Fund from 1968 to 1973.
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On 7 November 1975, Per Ahlmark succeeded Gunnar Helen as leader of the Liberal People's Party.
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From 1976 to 1978, in the first non-socialist government in Sweden in forty years, Per Ahlmark served as Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister.
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On 7 March 1978, Ahlmark retired from party politics for personal reasons.
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Per Ahlmark published several political books and many hundreds of articles about politics, literature and international conflicts.
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Per Ahlmark was a columnist for Expressen, then the largest daily newspaper in Scandinavia, from 1961 to 1995.
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Per Ahlmark was a strong supporter of the state of Israel.
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Per Ahlmark co-founded the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism in 1983 and served as its deputy chairman until 1995.
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Per Ahlmark served as an advisor to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity since 1987, and was a member of board of the Geneva-based NGO UN Watch since 1993.
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In 1994, Per Ahlmark published the widely debated book Vanstern och tyranniet, which is the major work on Swedish fellow travellers and political pilgrims during the last thirty years.
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Per Ahlmark supported the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, and was extremely critical of Hans Blix.
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In February 2006, Ahlmark wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he had officially nominated former US undersecretary of state John Bolton and American investigative reporter Kenneth R Timmerman for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Per Ahlmark was first married to the journalist Lillemor Melsted in 1965.