1941 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1941 in Sweden
Incumbents
- King – Gustaf V
- Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson[1]
- Cabinet –
- Minister for Justice – Karl Gustaf Westman
- Minister for Foreign Affairs – Christian Günther
- Minister for Foreign Trade –
- Fritiof Domö (until 7 March)
- Hermann Eriksson (after 7 March)
- Minister for Defence – Per Edvin Sköld
- Minister for Health and Social Affairs – Gustav Möller
- Minister for Finance – Ernst Wigforss
- Minister for Rural Affairs – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
- Minister for Infrastructure – Gustaf Andersson
Events
- Enskilda Bank receives $4.5M from Germany & allegedly acts as a purchasing agent for German bonds and securities.[2]
- 20 January - The first trolleybus line in Stockholm begins to operate.[3]
- 22 January - Victor Hasselblad registers the Hasselblad Camera Company[4]
- 4 March - British commandos carry out attacks on Narvik, Norway via Sweden
- 22 June - The Midsummer crisis begins following Germany's request to transport troops through Sweden during Operation Barbarossa. Historians later debated whether the episode constituted a genuine constitutional crisis.[5]
- 25 June - 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.
- July - A fully-equipped German division crosses Sweden from Norway to Finland.[6]
- 17 September - Swedish navy experiences its worst disaster ever in Harsfjarden[7]
Births
- 3 February - Monica Nordquist, actress (died 2017)
- 13 February - Bo Svenson, actor
- 28 April - Ann-Margret, actress
- 15 June - Essy Persson, actress
- 19 June - Magnus Harenstram, actor
- 9 July - Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, modern pentathlete
- 13 September - Jan-Åke Edvinsson, ice hockey administrator (died 2022)
- 29 September - Thomas Hellberg, actor (died 2023)
Deaths
- 3 January - Henning Ohlson, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1884)
- 8 April – Gulli Petrini, women's rights activist (b. 1867)
- 3 May – Selma Ek, operatic soprano (b. 1856)
- 15 May – Anna Lindhagen, politician (b. 1870)
See also
References
- ↑ "Sweden". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
- ↑ Scherberger, R. R.; Kaess, H.; Brückner, S. (September 1975). "[Studies on the action of an anticholinergic agent in combination with a tranquilizer on gastric juice secretion in man]". Arzneimittel-Forschung. 25 (9): 1460–1463. ISSN 0004-4172. PMID 26.
- ↑ "Stockholm" (in Swedish). Swedish Tramway Society. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ↑ "Our story – Hasselblad company history". Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
- ↑ Scott, Carl-Gustaf. "The Swedish Midsummer Crisis of 1941: The Crisis That Never Was". Journal of Contemporary History. 37 (3): 371–394 – via jstor.
- ↑ Knirsch, Peter (2019-03-04), "Summary of Economic Relations", Economic Warfare or Détente, Routledge, pp. 86–98, doi:10.4324/9780429035197-7, ISBN 978-0-429-03519-7, retrieved 2025-02-24
- ↑ "Adrian English". www.histarmar.com.ar. Retrieved 2022-07-19.