1941 in Sweden
Incumbents
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- King – Gustaf V
- Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson{{Cite web |title=Sweden |url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Sweden.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.worldstatesmen.org}}
- Cabinet –
- Minister for Justice – Karl Gustaf Westman
- Minister for Foreign Affairs – Christian Günther
- Minister for Foreign Trade –
- Fritiof Domö (until 7 March)
- Hermann Eriksson (after 7 March)
- Minister for Defence – Per Edvin Sköld
- Minister for Health and Social Affairs – Gustav Möller
- Minister for Finance – Ernst Wigforss
- Minister for Rural Affairs – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp
- Minister for Infrastructure – Gustaf Andersson
Events
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- Enskilda Bank receives $4.5M from Germany & allegedly acts as a purchasing agent for German bonds and securities.{{Cite journal |last1=Scherberger |first1=R. R. |last2=Kaess |first2=H. |last3=Brückner |first3=S. |date=September 1975 |title=[Studies on the action of an anticholinergic agent in combination with a tranquilizer on gastric juice secretion in man] |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26 |journal=Arzneimittel-Forschung |volume=25 |issue=9 |pages=1460–1463 |issn=0004-4172 |pmid=26}}
- 20 January - The first trolleybus line in Stockholm begins to operate.{{cite web|url=https://www.sparvagssallskapet.se/atlas/system.php?atlas_id=26|title=Stockholm|publisher=Swedish Tramway Society|language=Swedish|accessdate=27 June 2022}}
- 22 January - Victor Hasselblad registers the Hasselblad Camera Company{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}
- 4 March - British commandos carry out attacks on Narvik, Norway via Sweden
- 22 June - Midsummer crisis: Political crisis over the start of Operation Barbarossa
- 25 June - 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.
- July - A fully-equipped German division crosses Sweden from Norway to Finland.{{Citation |last=Knirsch |first=Peter |title=Summary of Economic Relations |date=2019-03-04 |work=Economic Warfare or Détente |pages=86–98 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429035197-7 |access-date=2025-02-24 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780429035197-7 |isbn=978-0-429-03519-7|url-access=subscription }}
- 17 September - Swedish navy experiences its worst disaster ever in Harsfjarden{{Cite web |title=Adrian English |url=http://www.histarmar.com.ar/InfHistorica-5/The%20Swedish%20Navy.htm |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=www.histarmar.com.ar}}
Births
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- 3 February - Monica Nordquist, actress (died 2017)
- 13 February - Bo Svenson, actor
- 28 April - Ann-Margret, actress
- 15 June - Essy Persson, actress
- 19 June - Magnus Harenstram, actor
- 9 July - Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, modern pentathlete
- 13 September - Jan-Åke Edvinsson, ice hockey administrator (died 2022)
- 29 September - Thomas Hellberg, actor (died 2023)
Deaths
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- 3 January - Henning Ohlson, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1884)
- 8 April – Gulli Petrini, women's rights activist (b. 1867)
- 3 May – Selma Ek, operatic soprano (b. 1856)
- 15 May – Anna Lindhagen, politician (b. 1870)
See also
References
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