Gösta Bagge
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professor
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of economics
Economics
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and conservative politician
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Born on 27 May 1882 in Stockholm
Stockholm
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, Gösta Bagge was declared leader for the National Organization of the Right
Moderate Party
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after the sudden retirement of Arvid Lindman
Arvid Lindman
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in 1935, and remained its leader until 1944. He was a social conservative politician within the rightist party, but had a liberal
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view on economics and was a harsh critic of the economic policies of the social democratic finance minister
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Ernst Wigforss
Ernst Wigforss
Ernst Johannes Wigforss was a Swedish politician and linguist , mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance...
. Bagge was also minister of ecclesiastical affairs (Minister of education, science, culture , sports and church) in the coalition government from 1939 to 1944.
In government he was the leading supporter of Finland's fight for survival against the Soviet Union and wanted to give aid to the Nordic neighbor country. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1933.
He died on 3 January 1951 in Högalid, Stockholm
Stockholm
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