Gustaf Lagerbjelke

Gustaf Lagerbjelke.

Gustaf Graf Lagerbjelke (born October 6, 1817 in Älvsjö , Brännkyrka, Stockholm , † March 6, 1895 in Stockholm) was a Swedish statesman and the last land marshal of Sweden .

Life

Ascent to the last land marshal

Lagerbjelke came from an influential family: his father was adjutant general Axel Lagerbjelke, whose brothers were vice admiral Johan Lagerbjelke and statesman Gustaf Lagerbjelke. His grandfather Johan Gustaf Lagerbjelke and his great-grandfather Axel Lagerbjelke were also vice admirals.

Lagerbjelke began studying law in 1834 after attending school and graduated in 1838. He then worked in judicial auditing before joining the Swedish Court of Appeal ( Svea Hovrätt ) .

In 1844, Lagerbjelke became a member of the State Council as a representative of the nobility and was also chairman of the expenditure committee. Later he was chairman of the State Audit Committee in 1847 and then chairman of the State Debt Committee between 1848 and 1857, before being agent of the Swedish Reichsbank from 1857 to 1858 .

In the Ritterhaus , the aristocratic chamber of the estate aristocracy, he gained increasing attention and influence and, along with Henning Hamilton , Gillis Bildt and Erik Sparre, was one of the leading young politicians of the Junker party . Already at this time in 1850 he was concerned with the question of modernizing the parliament by dissolving the State Council and the establishment of a Reichstag, with heated debates in the four houses of the State Council over the question of a one-chamber or two-chamber system . In 1853 he submitted a proposal to set up a special administrative court ( Administrativ domstol ) to relieve the Supreme Court ( Högsta domstolen ) from administrative disputes.

Between 1858 and 1888 Lagerbjelke was governor of the province of Södermanland for thirty years and again chairman of the committee for state financial control in 1860. The Junker Party represented a relatively open economic policy that advocated a free trade policy at an early stage .

He reached the height of his influence in the State Chamber Conference between 1862 and 1863 and 1865 to 1866 when Land Marshal became President of the House of Knights. Lagerbjelke was the last Land Marshal, since in 1867 the modernization of the parliamentary system was implemented and a two-chamber Reichstag was established.

Longstanding President of the First Chamber

He was then a member of the First Chamber of the new Reichstag from 1867 to 1894, where he represented the province of Södermanland. At the same time he became the first President of the First Chamber ( Första kammaren ) in 1867 and held this office until 1876. In addition, between 1869 and 1870 he was chairman of the committee for the planning of railway stations .

In 1870 he renounced the assumption of a ministerial office in the government of Minister of Justice Axel Adlercreutz . In addition, he became an honorary member of the Agricultural Academy in 1870, of which he had been a member since 1848.

In 1881 he was again President of the First Chamber and held this position for ten years until March 1891. At the same time, Lagerbjelke was chairman of the Banking Committee between 1881 and 1883. In addition, he was chairman of the Presidential Conference of the Reichstag from 1878 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1893. On April 12, 1893, he gave a high-profile speech to the First Chamber on the status quo of the Union of Sweden and Norway .

In 1893 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University .

literature

• Gustaf Lagerbjelke . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 15 : Kromat – Ledvätska . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1911, Sp. 834 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).