Natanael Gärde
{{Short description|Swedish jurist and politician (1880–1968)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = J Natanael Gärde.jpg
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| office = Minister of Justice
| primeminister =
| predecessor =
| successor = Karl Schlyter
| term_start = 7 June 1930
| term_end = 24 September 1932
| office1 = Minister of State
| primeminister1 = Carl Gustaf Ekman
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| term_start1 = 7 June 1926
| term_end1 = 2 October 1928
| birth_name = Johannes Natanael Gärde
| birth_date = 27 July 1880
| birth_place = Seglora parish, Älvsborg county
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|1|28|1880|7|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Stockholm
| restingplace =
| parents = {{ubl|Johannes Bengtsson (father) | Hedda Andersdtr (mother)}}
| party =
| alma_mater = Uppsala University
| spouse = Märta Brink
| children = Ingrid Gärde Widemar
| nationality = Swedish
| occupation = Lawyer}}
Natanael Gärde (27 July 1880 – 28 January 1968) was a Swedish judge who served as the minister of justice between 1930 and 1932.
Early life and education
Career
On 7 June 1926 Gärde was appointed minister of state to the cabinet led by Premier Carl Gustaf Ekman.{{cite book|editor=M. Epstein|title=The Statesman's Year-Book|publisher=Macmillan and Co. Ltd.|year=1928|isbn=978-0-230-27057-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xknODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1317|location=London
|page=1317}} His term ended on 2 October 1928. He was named minister of justice on 7 June 1930 and remained in the office until 24 September 1932. During his tenure Gärde managed to implement a proposal of the former minister Johan Thyrén in which fines to the detainees ability to pay were regulated.{{cite book|author=Nicholas Adams|title=Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe|publisher=Penn State University Press|year=2014|page=118|isbn=978-0-271-06523-6
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-wtCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT118|location=University Park, PA}} After leaving office Gärde headed the procedural law commission which was formed by his successor as minister of justice Karl Schlyter to reform the legal framework of Sweden in 1938.{{cite book|editor1=Malcolm Feeley|editor2=Malcolm Langford|title=The Limits of the Legal Complex: Nordic Lawyers and Political Liberalism|page=90|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2021|isbn=978-0-19-284841-3|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlxVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90
|author=Johan Karlsson Schaffer|chapter=The Legal Complex in Struggles for Political Liberalism in Sweden
|location=Oxford}}
Personal life and death
Gärde married Märta Brink in 1909. Their daughter was Ingrid Gärde Widemar who was also a jurist and politician.{{cite web|author=Andreas Anderberg|title=Ingrid Gärde Widemar|publisher=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/IngridGardeWidemar|access-date=28 May 2022|date=8 March 2018}} Natanael Gärde died in Stockholm on 28 January 1968.{{cite web|author=Peter Westerlind |title=J Natanael Gärde|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=13438|access-date=28 May 2022 |publisher=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|language=sv}}
=Awards=
Gärde was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 1948.
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Category:20th-century Swedish lawyers
Category:20th-century Swedish politicians
Category:Uppsala University alumni