Sten Heckscher

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Sten Heckscher (born July 29, 1942 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish lawyer and social democratic politician .

Heckscher is a son of the politician Gunnar Heckscher and grandson of the economic historian Eli Heckscher .

Heckscher studied law at Uppsala University . Although his father was the leader of the bourgeois-conservative Högerpartiet , Heckscher was involved in social democratic politics. He served in public offices in and outside the government until Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson appointed him Minister for Industry and Labor on the eve of the Social Democrats' election victory in 1994 .

In 1996 he resigned from this position and became head of the Swedish National Police . In 2005 he was appointed Chief Justice at the Higher Administrative Court in Stockholm. In 2007 he became President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden.