Hjalmar Mehr | |
Order: | 8th Mayor of Stockholm |
Term Start: | 15 October 1958 |
Term End: | 15 October 1966 |
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: | 19 November 1910 |
Birth Place: | Sankt Matteus församling |
Death Place: | Adelsö församling |
Party: | Social Democrats |
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.[1] [2]
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.