Herman Zetterberg

Swedish jurist and politician (1904–1963)

Per Albin Hansson
Tage Erlander

Preceded byThorwald BergquistSucceeded byIngvar Lindell Personal detailsBorn(1904-07-01)1 July 1904
Uddevalla, SwedenDied18 March 1963(1963-03-18) (aged 58)Political partySocial Democratic PartyAlma materUppsala University

Herman Zetterberg (1 July 1904 – 18 March 1963) was a Swedish jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as justice minister for twelve years between July 1945 and September 1957.

Early life and education

Zetterberg was born on 1 July 1904 in Uddevalla.^[1] His parents were the court of appeal councilor Hugo Zetterberg and Alma Rehnberg.^[2]

He graduated with a law degree from Uppsala University in 1928.^[2]

Career

Zetterberg was an appellate court counsel in 1942 and served as a member of the law committee 1944–1947.^[2] On 31 July 1945, he was appointed justice minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson.^[2] He held this post until 30 September 1957.^[2] During his tenure Zetterberg took an anti-Soviet approach.^[3] From 1957 to his death in 1963, he was president of the Svea Court of Appeal.^[2]

Personal life and death

Zetterberg married twice. His first wife, Kitty Rippe, died of cancer in 1955.^[1] He remarried in 1959 to Ulrica Lyttkens, who died in January 1963.^[1] Zetterberg died on 18 March 1963.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Historia" (in Swedish). Herman Zetterberg Stiftelsen. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gösta Walin. "Dödsfall" (in Swedish). SvJT. Archived from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^ Johan Matz (2015). "Sweden, the USSR and the early Cold War 1944–47". Cold War History. 15 (1): 44. doi:10.1080/14682745.2014.920825. S2CID 154258840.