Officially the Swedish King and the Liberal-Social Democratic government proclaimed neutrality in war, as a consequence of pressures in both foreign and domestic policy.

That year, he was supported by five political parties: the Centre Party, the Social Democrats, the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( a short-lived SDP faction ), the Finnish People's Democratic League ( a communist front ), and the Swedish People's Party.

When the Social Democratic Party came into power in 1932, its leaders introduced a new political decision-making process, which later became known as " the Swedish model.

On February 28, 1986, the Social Democratic leader and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered ; shocked Swedes worried whether the nation had " lost its innocence ".

Arguably, the subsequent budget cut-backs agreement with the Social Democrats, and after 1994, continued spending cuts by the Social Democratic government, did more to reform the Swedish economy and the Swedish model, than Bildt's governments programme as such.

A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death.

Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party.

In 1949 he became a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

From 1955 he was a board member of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League and lectured at the Youth League College Bommersvik.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Category: Leaders of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

Category: Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians

A long-time prominent member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, in the late 1940s she became involved in international issues with the United Nations, appointed to head its section on welfare policy in 1949.

Category: Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians

Since the Great Depression, Swedish national politics has largely been dominated by the Social Democratic Workers ' Party, which has held a plurality ( and sometimes a majority ) in parliament since 1917.

Hans Göran Persson () ( born 20 January 1949 ) was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.

In the early seventies he worked for the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League ( SSU ), and was a member of the national board from 1972 to 1975.

Category: Leaders of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

On the night of February 28, 1986, the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot and killed in Stockholm as he walked home from a cinema with his wife, Lisbet Palme.

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

In the same year, he also became leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League.

Category: Leaders of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

* Astrid Thors MP ( Swedish People's Party of Finland, Finland )

In Swedish, an MP is usually referred to as a riksdagsledamot or a riksdagsman ( the former is in more common use today, especially in official contexts, due its status as a unisex word, while the latter was used more often historically and literally refers to a male MP exclusively ).

To become an MP, a person must be entitled to vote ( i. e. be a Swedish citizen, be at least 18 years old and be or have been resident in Sweden ) and must be nominated by a political party.

* Elisabeth Rehn – former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first woman as the Minister of Defence in Finland

Max Anderson, MP for the Green Party, called in 2008 for an investigation into whether this was in violation of Swedish Law.

However, according to the Left Alliance, it was agreed upon during the talks on government formation that, if proposed by an individual MP, such bill would be endorsed by all the six parties except for the Christian Democrats ( the National Coalition, Social Democrats, Left Alliance, Green League and Swedish People's Party ).

Märta Elisabeth Rehn ( née Carlberg ) ( born April 6, 1935 in Helsinki, Finland ) is a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first female Minister of Defence in Finland.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

With his brother-in-law Gustavus dead in 1632, George William maintained the Swedish alliance until after the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Nordlingen on 6 September 1634.

According to English philologist Walter William Skeat ( 1835-1912 ), the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages, in Dutch oxhooft ( modern okshoofd ), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhufvod, etc.

In the year 1620, Maria Eleonora married the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who has just succeeded her father.

Maria Eleonora's brother George William was flattered by the offer of the British Crown Prince and proposed their younger sister Catherine ( 1602 – 1644 ) as a more suitable wife for the Swedish king.

* November 13 – William Chalmers, Swedish merchant ( d. 1811 )

Taking advantage of the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655, instead of fulfilling his vassal's duties towards the Polish Kingdom, by joining forces with the Swedes and subsequent treaties of Wehlau, Labiau, and Oliva, Elector and Duke Frederick William succeeded in revoking king of Poland's sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia in 1660.

The city is named for Chief William Anderson, whose mother was a Delaware Indian ( Lenape ) and whose father was of Swedish descent.

When the papal diplomat William of Modena visited present Sweden around 1248, he urged the Swedish kings to fulfill the rules of the Catholic Church, an exhortation which Birger seems to have taken as a chance to strengthen his position by simply taking the side of the church against other members of his family ( alternatively possible to interpret as a manifestation of his pious side ).

During this period of diplomatic work he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the affairs of Europe, and in particular of Germany, and displayed great tact and temper in dealing with the Swedish senate, with Queen Ulrica, with King Frederick IV of Denmark and King Frederick William I of Prussia.

* Hagans, William and Willow Zorn In America: A Swedish Impressionist of the Gilded Age ( Swedish American Historical Society, 2009 ) English

Swedish troops landed to assist the Danes ; Nicholas I of Russia, speaking with authority as Head of the elder Gottorp line, pointed out to King Frederick William IV the risks of a collision ; Great Britain, though the Danes rejected her mediation, threatened to send her fleet to assist in preserving the status quo.

After this point Gustavus Adolphus was the effective ruler of the country, and even though the rights of succession to Pomerania, held by George William, Elector of Brandenburg due to the Treaty of Grimnitz, were recognised, the Swedish king still demanded that the Margraviate of Brandenburg break with Emperor Ferdinand II.

When the Swedish Empire entered the war and advanced into Brandenburg, George William again claimed neutrality, yet Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden compelled George William to join Sweden as an ally by occupying substantial territory in Brandenburg-Prussia and concentrating an army before the town walls of Berlin.

Frederick William offered protection to the Royal Prussian towns in the Treaty of Rinsk, but had to yield Swedish military supremacy and withdraw to his Prussian duchy.

Pursued by Swedish forces to the Prussian capital, Frederick William made peace and allied with Sweden, taking the Duchy of Prussia and Ermland ( Ermeland, Warmia ) as fiefs from Charles X Gustav of Sweden in the Treaty of Königsberg in January 1656.

Frederick William reacted promptly by marching his armies from the Rhine to northern Brandenburg, and encountered the rear of the Swedish army, which was in the process of crossing a swamp, in the Battle of Fehrbellin ( 1675 ).

Great Sleigh Drive ( 1678 ): Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | Frederick William pursues Swedish troops across the frozen Curonian Spit | Curonian Lagoon ; fresco by Wilhelm Simmler, ca.

By 1678, Frederick William had cleared Swedish Pomerania and occupied most of it, with the exception of Rügen which was held by Denmark – Norway.