Per Ahlmark

Per Axel Ahlmark (born January 15, 1939 in Stockholm ; † June 8, 2018 ) was a Swedish writer and politician of the liberal Folkpartiet liberalerna .

Live and act

Ahlmark was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor in the coalition government of the center politician Thorbjörn Fälldin from 1976 to 1978 and party chairman of the Folkpartiet from 1975 to 1978.

He left active politics for personal reasons at the age of 39. He continued to take part in public debates in Sweden on issues of politics, literature and international conflicts. He was a columnist for Dagens Nyheter and The Jerusalem Post and the author of numerous political books, in which he dealt primarily critically with the attitude of the Swedish left towards the totalitarian regimes of communist nature after 1968.

Ahlmark was a staunch supporter of Zionism and Israel . From 1970 to 1998 he was chairman of the Sweden-Israel Society ( Samfundet Sverige-Israel ). In 1997 he also founded the Sweden- Taiwan Friendship Society . He advocated the US Iraq war in 2003 and was also a strong critic of his party colleague, the UN weapons inspector in pre -war Iraq, Hans Blix . He was also a committee member of the pro-Israel lobby organization UN Watch .

Ahlmark was married to the Swedish actress Bibi Andersson from 1978 to 1981 .

In 2004 he received the Jan Karski Award from the American Jewish Committee .

Publications (selection)

Political journalism

Vänstern och tyranniet (The Left and Tyranny), 1994
Det öppna såret (The Open Wound), 1997
Det ar democrat, dumbom! (It's the democracy, stupid!), 2004
Brat inga dumheter medan jag är död! (Don't do anything stupid while I'm dead!), 2011 (autobiography)

Fiction

Flykter , Poems, 1985
Zones , novel, 1989

Web links

Per Ahlmark Foundation ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish, English)
Per Ahlmark in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

↑ Per Ahlmark är död - tidigare FP-ledaren blev 79 - DN.SE. DN.SE, June 8, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 (Swedish).
↑ Bernd Henningsen: The European wound also bleeds in the north. To discuss intellectual followers and political collaboration: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro and the Scandinavians . In: NORDEUROPAforum (1998: 1), pp. 113–118.

personal data
SURNAME	Ahlmark, Per
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish writer and folk party politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 2018

[1] Per Ahlmark är död - tidigare FP-ledaren blev 79 - DN.SE. DN.SE, June 8, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 (Swedish).

[2] Bernd Henningsen: The European wound also bleeds in the north. To discuss intellectual followers and political collaboration: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro and the Scandinavians . In: NORDEUROPAforum (1998: 1), pp. 113–118.