Christian Lundeberg was a Swedish

Sweden

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 politician

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 who served as Prime Minister of Sweden

Prime Minister of Sweden

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 from 2 August to 7 November 1905.

Lundeberg was born in Valbo

Valbo

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, Gävleborg County

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. He was the son of Johan Ulrik August Lundeberg, a mill owner, and Maria Eckman. He studied at Ultuna

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 and at a military school, and was a Löjtnant

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 (roughly equivalent to lieutenant

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) from 1861 to 1874, after which he left the military service. He worked at the iron works at Forsbacka bruk, where he was CEO

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 from 1885 to 1906.

He was a member of the First Chamber of Parliament for the conservative

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 and protectionist

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 party, and became its leader in 1899.

Lundeberg was a leading figure during the parliamentary discussions regarding the union between Sweden and Norway

Union between Sweden and Norway

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. He was the chairman of a committee that was critical of, and eventually lead to the demise of Johan Ramstedt

Johan Ramstedt

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's government. In June 1905, the King

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 appointed Lundeberg to create a government. He created a coalition government

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 that in September 1905 reached an agreement which allowed Norway to hold a referendum

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 for, or against, independence

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 from Sweden.

Following the solution of the Union Crisis, Lundeberg tried to find a mandate to continue with the coalition government in order to resolve the issue of suffrage

Suffrage

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. When his attempt failed, he went back to being a member of parliament, and was a speaker in the First Chamber of Parliament from 1909 until his death in 1911.