Baron Louis Gerhard de Geer af Finspång

1818 - 1896  (78 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 11 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Louis Gerhard de Geer af Finspång
  Prefix	Baron
  Birth	18 Jul 1818
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Sep 1896
  Siblings	5 Siblings
  1. Friherre Gustav Gerard de Geer af Finspång,   b. 6 Aug 1816, Finspång d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Baron Louis Gerhard de Geer af Finspång,   b. 18 Jul 1818   d. 24 Sep 1896  (Age 78 years) ▻ Grevinde Caroline Wachtmeister,  m. 17 Oct 1848 + 3. Friherre Hjalmar Rudolf Gérard de Geer af Finspång,   b. 25 Nov 1819, Finspång d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Ebba Lidman,  m. 18 Jan 1848   4. Friherreinde Aurora Elisabet de Geer af Finspång,   b. 19 Feb 1822, Finspång d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Fabian Jacob Wrede,  m. 14 May 1846   5. Friherrinna Louise Adrienne de Geer af Finspång,   b. 2 Apr 1823, Stjärnholm,, Södermanland, Sverige d. Yes, date unknown   6. Friherrinna Ebba de Geer af Finspång,   b. 12 Oct 1828, Stjernholm d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I625049	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Baron Gerhard de Geer af Finspång,   b. 3 Apr 1787, Finspång d. 28 Sep 1846, Karlskrona (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Henriette Charlotta Lagerstråle,   b. 12 Mar 1793, Jälla, Uppsala län, Uppland, Sverige d. 13 Dec 1843, Stjärnholm (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	24 Jun 1814	Linköping, Östergötlän, Sverige
  Family ID	F272702	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Grevinde Caroline Wachtmeister,   b. 10 Jul 1826, Vanås,, Scania, Sverige d. 5 May 1910, Kristianstad, Scania, Sverige (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	17 Oct 1848	Vanås
  Children	1. Friherre Fabian Otto Gerard de Geer af Finspång,   b. 1850   d. 1934 (Age 84 years) + 2. Baron Gerhard Louis de Geer af Finspång,   b. 27 Nov 1854, Kristianstad d. 25 Feb 1935 (Age 80 years)   3. Friherre Gerard Jakob de Geer af Finspång,   b. 1858   d. 1943 (Age 85 years)   4. Friherre Carl Gustaf Gerard de Geer af Finspång,   b. 1859   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F272701	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2009

  
  

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  Swedish statesman and writer. De Geer was born at Finspång manor. He was a lawyer, and in 1855 became president of the Göta Hovrätt , or lord justice for the appellate court of Götaland . From 7 April 1858 to 3 June 1870 he was Prime Minister of Justice. As a member of the nobility he took part in the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates from 1851 onwards. From 1867 to 1878 he was the member for Stockholm in the first chamber in the New Riksdag , and introduced and passed many useful reforms. His greatest achievement was the reform of the Swedish representative system. The reforms introduced a bi-cameral elected parliament replacing the existing cumbersome and less democratic representation by estates, a hangover from the later Middle Ages. This measure was accepted by the Riksdag in December 1865, and received the royal sanction on 22 June 1866 . For some time after this De Geer enjoyed considerable popularity. He retired from the ministry in 1870, but took office again, as minister in 1875. In 1876 he became the first Prime Minister of Sweden and served until April 1880, when the failure of his repeated efforts to settle the armaments question again induced him to resign. From 1881 to 1888 he was Chancellor for the Universities of Uppsala and Lund . He was an advocate of free trade and economic liberalism and some argue laid the foundations for the strong economic growth in Sweden from 1870 to 1970. Besides several novels and aesthetic essays, De Geer has written a few political memoirs of supreme merit both as to style and matter, the most notable of which are: Minnesteckning öfver A. J. v. Höpken (Stockholm, 1881); Minnesteckning öfver Hans Järta (Stockholm, 1874); Minnesteckning öfver B. B. von Platen (Stockholm, 1886); and his own Minnen (Stockholm, 1892), an autobiography, invaluable as a historical document, in which the political experience and the matured judgments of a lifetime are recorded with singular clearness, sobriety and charm.