Gösta Bagge
Gösta Adolfsson Bagge (born May 27, 1882 in Stockholm , † January 3, 1951 there ) was a Swedish economics professor and politician.
After finishing school, Bagge studied economics at Uppsala University . In 1904 he traveled to the USA to study. In 1917 he received his doctorate and was given a lectureship at the Stockholm University, later Stockholm University . In 1921 he became a professor of economics and social policy, and founded the Social Institute in Stockholm, which later Socialhögskolan was called and was in 1977 also integrated into the University of Stockholm. Bagge is also involved as a local politician in Stockholm. In 1932 he became a member of the first chamber of the Swedish Reichstag as the successor to the murdered Hjalmar von Sydow .
After Arvid Lindman's withdrawal , he was elected chairman of the socially conservative Högerns Riks organization , today's Moderata samlingspartiet . In the election to the Swedish Reichstag in 1936 , he was elected to the second chamber. He represented rather liberal economic ideas and was a critic of the finance minister Ernst Wigforss . In the third coalition government formed by Per Albin Hansson in 1939 , Bagge became Minister for Education, Research and Culture. He held this position until the 1944 election, after which he also gave up the party chairmanship. In 1947 he also left the Reichstag.
Bagge had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1933 . and since 1942 member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
literature
- B. Ohlin: Gösta Adolfsson Bagge. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon 2 (1920), p. 598 ff. ( Online resource ).
- Gösta Bagges minnesanteckningar 1. 1929-1941, 2. 1942-1944 utg.genom Kersti Blidberg och Alf W. Johansson. (Kungl. Samfundet för utgivande av handskrifter rörande Scandinaviens historia 35-36), Stockholm 2013. (Swedish)
- Per G. Andreen: Bagge, Wigforss och 40-talets frihetsdebatt. Lindfors nya Bokförlag AB, Stockholm 1985 (Swedish)
- Per G. Andreen (together with Gunnar Boalt): Bagge får tacka Rockefeller . Stockholms universitet, Institutions för socialt arbete, Socialhögskolan, Stockholm 1987 (Swedish)
- Per G. Andreen: Gösta Bagge som Samhällsbyggare. Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm 1999 (Swedish)
Web links
- Newspaper article about Gösta Bagge in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the American Academy of Arts an Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, accessed April 27, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bagge, Gosta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bagge, Gösta Adolfsson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish economics professor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1951 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |