Gösta Skoglund
{{Short description|Swedish educator and politician (1903–1988)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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| office = Minister of Communications (Transport)
| primeminister = Tage Erlander
| predecessor = Sture Henriksson
| successor = Olof Palme
| term_start = April 1957
| term_end = September 1965
| birth_date = 29 April 1903
| birth_place = Hudiksvall, Sweden
| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|6|14|1903|4|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Umeå, Sweden
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| party = Social Democratic Party
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| nationality = Swedish
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Gösta Skoglund (29 April 1903 – 14 June 1988) was a Swedish social democrat politician who was the minister of communications between 1957 and 1965. He was also known for his contributions in the establishment of Umeå University.
Biography
File:Olof Palme 1965-11-25 001.jpg Olof Palme on 25 November 1965]]
Skoglund was born in Hudiksvall, Gävleborg County, on 29 April 1903.{{cite web|title=Gösta Skoglund|publisher=Umeå University|url=https://www.umu.se/centrum-for-regionalvetenskap/gosta-skoglunds-fond/|access-date=10 October 2021}} He received a degree in primary school education in 1925 after which he moved to Umeå where he began to work as a teacher in 1927. Skoglund started his political career in 1938 when he became a county councilor in Västerbotten and later a member of parliament where he served between 1940 and 1970. In April 1957 Skoglund was appointed minister of communications (Transport) to the cabinet led by social democrat Prime Minister Tage Erlander.{{cite book|editor=S. Steinberg|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1963|year=2016|publisher=Macmillan & CO Ltd|isbn=978-0-230-27092-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NbMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1446|page=1446
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010121211/https://biopen.bi.no/bi-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/94346/2006-04-boge.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|archive-date=10 October 2021}}
During his term as minister Skoglund initiated the traffic reform in Sweden in 1963.{{cite journal|author=Fredrik Norén|title=H-Day 1967 – An alternative perspective on "propaganda" in the historiography of public relation|journal=Public Relations Review|date=June 2019
|volume=45|issue=2|page=236|doi=10.1016/j.pubrev.2018.10.004|s2cid=158977356 |url=http://mau.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1748195/FULLTEXT01}} He was also a member of the Nordic Council. His term as the minister of communications (Transport) ended in September 1965, and he was succeeded by Olof Palme in the post.{{cite news|title=Swedish Minister Retires|date=4 September 1965
|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/116861490|access-date=10 October 2021|work=The New York Times|agency=Reuters|id={{ProQuest|116861490}}}}
Skoglund was made the head of Commission for High Level Road Planning in 1965. He served as chairman of the county council for two years from 1971 to 1973.{{cite web|title=Prosperity and Growth Strategy Karlstad Region|format=Report|date=9 June 2017
|url=http://tentacle.eu/a/uploads/dokument/Prosperity_and_Growth_Strategy_for_the_Karlstad_Region_-_Basic_Report.pdf|publisher=TENTacle WP 4.1
|access-date=10 October 2021|page=65}} He was one of the driving forces behind the formation of Umeå University.
Honors and legacy
Umeå University made Skoglund honorary doctor of the faculty of dentistry in 1958, which was before the official inauguration of the university, and of the faculty of medicine in 1972.
In 1982 a road at the Umeå University campus was named after him. In 1983 a scholarship fund was established in his memory at the Center for Regional Science (CERUM) at Umeå University which provides scholarships every year.
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Category:20th-century Swedish educators
Category:Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats
Category:People from Hudiksvall