Jarl Hjalmarson
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Jarl Hjalmarson | |
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| Leader of the Rightist Party | |
| In office 1950–1961 | |
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| Born | 15 June 1904 |
| Died | 26 November 1993 |
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Jarl Harald Hjalmarson (15 June 1904 – 26 November 1993) was the leader of the conservative Swedish Rightist Party (Högerpartiet), today known as the Moderate Party, between 1950 and 1961.
Born in Helsingborg, he was considered as a moderate conservative, he led the Swedish conservatives to the position as the second-biggest party (after the predominant Social Democrats) in Sweden in the 1958 election. Under his leadership, the party undertook a wide agreement with the government to expand the Swedish armed forces in face of the ongoing Cold War and Swedish neutrality and vocally supported the development of Swedish nuclear weapons, which was ultimately abandoned.
Hjalmarson was the son of Major General Harald Hjalmarson, who helped to build up the Persian Government Gendarmerie and served in the Finnish Civil War. The elder Hjalmarson committed suicide after his return from Finland in 1918. Jarl Hjalmarson's mother was Blenda Hjalmarson, born Lindeborg. In 1929 Hjalmarson received a bachelor's degree in law.[1] He married Eywor Dahlén in 1933 and had three sons, Torgils (born in 1936), Staffan (born in 1939) and Bo (born in 1943).
