1941 in Sweden

Events from the year 1941 in Sweden

Incumbents

• King – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson
• 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

• Enskilda Bank receives $4.5M from Germany & allegedly acts as a purchasing agent for German bonds and securities.
• 20 January - The first trolleybus line in Stockholm begins to operate.
• 22 January - Victor Hasselblad registers the Hasselblad Camera Company
• 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.
• 17 September - Swedish navy experiences its worst disaster ever in Harsfjarden

Births

• 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

• 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

• Timeline of Sweden during World War II
• History of Sweden

References