Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt (2015)

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt  [ ˌkɑːɭ ˈbilt ] (born July 15, 1949 in Halmstad ) is a Swedish politician . He was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and Swedish Foreign Minister from October 6, 2006 to October 3, 2014 .

Live and act

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the Bildt family.

Carl Bildt comes from a Norwegian-Danish-Swedish aristocratic family . He is the son of a ministerial official and an association secretary, as well as the great-great-grandson of Prime Minister Gillis Bildt , who was promoted to baron in 1864 .

Bildt is third married to MEP Anna Maria Corazza Bildt and has three children.

Education and early political activities

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Opposition '68, receipts, Stockholm University or Östra Real?

In connection with a nationwide teachers' strike in 1966, Bildt made his first television appearance. As head boy, he organized lessons, some of which were held by students. At the same time he was a member of the board of the Swedish student council organization.

Bildt studied philosophy and political science at Stockholm University , but without ever receiving a degree.

In 1973 he became chairman of the FMSF student association of the conservative Moderate Collection Party . He was also involved early on in European student policy and was chairman of European Democrat Students from 1974 to 1976 .

Party career and offices

Carl Bildt in 2006 with Condoleezza Rice .

From 1973 to 1976 he was party secretary of the moderates, with whose long-time chairman Gösta Bohman , his temporary father-in-law, he had a close relationship of trust. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked for the bourgeois coalition governments, including as State Secretary from 1979 . In 1979 he entered the Reichstag for the first time as a member of parliament. He was spokesman for his party for foreign and security policy in the Reichstag and as such was appointed to the U-Boat Commission in 1981 , which had to investigate how repeatedly foreign submarines could enter Swedish territorial waters off the Karlskrona naval base .

In 1986 he was elected chairman of the Moderate Collection Party, whose position as the largest bourgeois party he expanded. In the parliamentary election on September 15, 1991 , it received 21.9% of the vote; Bildt became Swedish Prime Minister. He formed a coalition government with the three other bourgeois parties. After the election defeat in 1994 , it was replaced by a social democratic minority government. Subsequently, he mainly campaigned for Sweden to join the EU , which took place in 1995 . After the losses in the 1998 election , Bildt resigned as party chairman in 1999 and devoted himself to international tasks.

From December 14, 1995 to June 18, 1997, Bildt was the (first) High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (successor: Carlos Westendorp ); from 1999 to 2001 he was the UN special envoy for the Balkans .

In 2006, Bildt surprisingly returned to Swedish politics when he was appointed Foreign Minister by the new Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (see Reinfeldt government ). When Sweden held the Swedish EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2009 , Bildt was President of the Council of the European Union .

Others

In May 2010, Bildt was one of over 100 signatories to an open letter in which politicians and intellectuals from Europe and the United States accused Vladimir Putin of leading Russia into a dictatorship.

Despite his critical stance towards Russia and especially Putin's Ukraine policy, in May 2015 he was appointed advisor to a Russian company, the energy company “ Letter One ” of the oligarch Mikhail Fridman . Fridman, who seeks distance from the Kremlin through contacts with the West, explained his choice by saying that Bildt should help the company develop its oil and natural gas businesses.

At the same time, Bildt accepted a membership in an international advisory group to the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko .

Web links

Commons : Carl Bildt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Bildt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bildts Blog (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry Carl Bildt Munzinger Archive, accessed on October 9, 2014
2. ↑ Linda Backmann: En 17-årig Carl Bildt tar över undervisningen på skolan: Arrogans och ansvar. Svenska Dagbladet, November 13, 2009, accessed September 29, 2014 . 
3. ↑ sueddeutsche.de May 18, 2010: "Russia is about to slide down an authoritarian path"
4. ↑ Bildt helps Russian oil company, May 15, 2015 (accessed on May 28, 2015).
5. ↑ Sweden's Carl Bildt advises Ukraine President and Russian group , May 18, 2015 (accessed May 28, 2015).