Gerhard Louis De Geer

Baron Gerhard Louis De Geer of Finspng was a Swedish politician, who served in the first chamber of the Riksdag 190114, was governor of Kristianstad County 190523, and Prime Minister of Sweden for 121 days in 19201921.

Louis De Geer was son of the baron and former prime minister Louis Gerhard De Geer and Caroline Wachtmeister. He was born in Kristianstad in the province of Scania, Kristianstad County. After juridical studies at the University of Uppsala, he entered politics. He was a member of the first chamber as a representative of Kristianstad County 190114 and served as governor of that county 190523. De Geer was at first a moderate liberal, but became a member of the minority party in the first chamber. At the inception of the Liberal Coalition Party in 1912, he joined them. By 1914, he left that party, and becoming a political maverick. In the following years he was chairman of the committee that came up with the suggestion of an eighthour work day in 1919, which strengthened his ties to the social democrats.

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