Hjalmar Mehr
{{Short description|Swedish politician}}
{{More citations needed|date=April 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Larsson mehr 1963.jpg
| caption = Hjalmar Mehr (right) with former Borgarråd Yngve Larsson inside Stockholm City Hall 1963
| name = Hjalmar Mehr
| order = 8th Mayor of Stockholm
| term_start = 15 October 1958
| term_end = 15 October 1966
| monarch = Gustaf VI Adolf
| predecessor = Erik Huss
| successor = Per-Olof Hansson
| term_start1 = 15 October 1970
| term_end1 = 30 September 1971
| monarch1 = Gustaf VI Adolf
| predecessor1 = Thorsten Sundström
| successor1 = Albert Aronsson
| order2 = Governor of Stockholm County
| term_start2 = 1971
| term_end2 = 1977
| monarch2 = Gustaf VI Adolf
Carl XVI Gustaf
| predecessor2 = Allan Nordenstam
| successor2 = Gunnar Helén
| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|11|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sankt Matteus församling
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|12|26|1910|11|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Adelsö församling
| party = Social Democrats
| spouse = {{marriage|Liselotte Lina Meyer|1937}}
| signature =
| occupation = Politician
}}
Hjalmar Leo Mehr (19 November 1910 – 26 December 1979) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, mayor of Stockholm (1958–1966, 1970–1971) and governor of Stockholm County (1971–1977). He promoted many radical socialist welfare state policies but is mostly remembered and criticized for the redevelopment of Norrmalm, where a significant part of the old Stockholm was demolished.{{cite news|url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1533232/FULLTEXT01.pdf|title=City under Lex Norrmalm|publisher=Nordic Journal of Settlement History and Built Heritage|author=Thomas Hall|language=Swedish|date=1983|accessdate=16 December 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/G10yq4/mer-av-mehr|title=Mer av Mehr!|publisher=Aftonbladet|author=Daniel Suhonen|language=Swedish|date=22 March 2010|accessdate=16 December 2022}}
In 1969, Mehr was elected president of the newly established Swedish Association of Local Authorities (Svenska Kommunförbundet), an association that existed from 1969 to 2007 (now the Swedish Association of Regions) to interact with the Riksdag of Sweden.
Mehr's parents, Sara and Bernhard Meyerowitch, were Russian-Jewish revolutionaries (mensheviks) who after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution fled to Sweden, where Hjalmar was born and named after Hjalmar Branting.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
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|before = created in 1969
|title = President of the
Swedish Association of Local Authorities
|years = 1969–1971
|after = Inge Hörlén
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