Minister for Education (Sweden)

Minister for Education
Statsråd och chef för utbildningsdepartmentet
Lesser coat of arms of Sweden
Incumbent Anna Ekström since 21 January 2019
Ministry of Education and Research
Member of	The Government
Seat	Stockholm, Sweden
Appointer	The Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term Serves as long as the incumbent doesn’t have majority support in the Riksdag or support from the Prime Minister
Formation	16 May 1840 (as Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs) 1 January 1968 (as Minister for Education) 6 June 1974 (as Councilor of State and Head of the Ministry of Education and Research)
First holder	1840: Albrecht Elof Ihre 1968: Olof Palme
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The Minister for Education (Swedish: utbildningsminister) is the education minister of Sweden and the head of the Ministry of Education and Research.

The current Minister for Education is Anna Ekström of the Social Democrats.

History[]

As a result of the ministry reform in 1840, the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs (Swedish: Ecklesiastikdepartementet) was instituted. The head of the ministry was the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, with the responsibility of culture, the Church of Sweden, research and education. In 1968, the Ministry of Esslesiastical Affairs changed its name to the Ministry of Education and Research (Swedish: Utbildningsdepartmentet). The head of the Ministry of Education and Research is the Minister for Education.

List of officeholders[]

Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs (1840—1967)[]

• 1840–1840 Albrecht Elof Ihre (1797–1877)
• 1840–1842 (1786–1853)
• 1842–1844 (1786–1860)
• 1844–1848 (1795–1882)
• 1848–1852 (1811–75)
• 1852–1855 Henrik Reuterdahl (1795–1870)
• 1855–1859 Lars Anton Anjou (1803–84)
• 1859–1860 Henning Hamilton (1814–86)
• 1860–1863 Carl Johan Thyselius (1811–91)
• 1863–1870 (1811–87)
• 1870–1875 Gunnar Wennerberg (1817–1901)
• 1875–1878 (1811–87)
• 1878–1880 (1822–1912)
• 1880–1888 (1838–98)
• 1888–1891 Gunnar Wennerberg (1817–1901)
• 1891–1898 (1832–1908)
• 1898–1902 Nils Claëson (1848–1910)
• 1902–1905 (1846–1905)
• 1905–1905 (1854–1928)
• 1905–1905 Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953)
• 1905–1906 Fridtjuv Berg (1851–1916)
• 1906–1909 Hugo Hammarskjöld (1845–1937)
• 1909–1911 Elof Lindström (1863–1924)
• 1911–1914 Fridtjuv Berg (1851–1916)
• 1914–1917 Karl Gustaf Westman (1876–1944)
• 1917–1917 (1858–1936)
• 1917–1919 (1878–1930), Social Democratic Party
• 1919–1920 Olof Olsson (1872–1939), Social Democratic Party
• 1920–1921 (1860–1936), independent
• 1921–1923 Olof Olsson (1872–1939), Social Democratic Party
• 1923–1924 (1867–1925), Rightist Party
• 1924–1926 Olof Olsson (1872–1939), Social Democratic Party
• 1926–1928 (1875–1946), Freeminded People's Party
• 1928–1930 (1870–1954), Rightist Party
• 1930–1932 (1872–1937), Freeminded People's Party
• 1932–1936 Arthur Engberg (1888–1944), Social Democratic Party
• 1936–1936 Tor Andræ (1885–1947), independent
• 1936–1939 Arthur Engberg (1888–1944), Social Democratic Party
• 1939–1944 Gösta Bagge (1882–1951), Rightist Party
• 1944–1945 (1890–1969), Rightist Party
• 1945–1946 Tage Erlander (1901–85), Social Democratic Party
• 1946–1951 (1893–1951), Social Democratic Party
• 1951–1951 Hildur Nygren (1896–1962), Social Democratic Party
• 1951–1957 (1901–79), Farmers' League
• 1957–1967 (1914–98), Social Democratic Party
• 1967–1967 Olof Palme (1927–86), Social Democratic Party

Minister for Education (1968—present)[]

Portrait		Minister (Born-Died)	Term			Political Party	Election	Prime Minister
			Took office	Left office	Duration
		Olof Palme (1927–1986)	1 January 1968	14 October 1969	1 year, 286 days	Social Democrat	1968	Tage Erlander (S/SAP)
		Ingvar Carlsson (born 1934)	14 October 1969	2 November 1973	4 years, 19 days	Social Democrat	–	Olof Palme (S/SAP)
		Bertil Zachrisson (born 1926)	2 November 1973	8 October 1976	2 years, 341 days	Social Democrat	1973	Olof Palme (S/SAP)
		Jan-Erik Wikström (born 1932)	8 October 1976	8 October 1982	6 years, 0 days	Liberal	1976 1979	Thorbjörn Fälldin (C) (1976 – 1978, 1979–1982) Ola Ullsten (L) (1978 – 1979)
		Lena Hjelm-Wallén (born 1943)	8 October 1982	16 October 1985	3 years, 8 days	Social Democrat	1982	Olof Palme (S/SAP)
		Lennart Bodström (1928–2015)	16 October 1985	29 January 1989	3 years, 105 days	Social Democrat	1985 1988	Olof Palme (S/SAP) (1985 – 1986) Ingvar Carlsson (S/SAP) (1986 – 1989)
		(1932–2021)	29 January 1989	3 October 1991	2 years, 247 days	Social Democrat	–	Ingvar Carlsson (S/SAP)
		Per Unckel (1948–2011)	3 October 1991	7 October 1994	3 years, 4 days	Moderate	1991	Carl Bildt (M)
		Carl Tham (born 1939)	7 October 1994	6 October 1998	3 years, 364 days	Social Democrat	1994	Ingvar Carlsson (S/SAP) (1994 – 1996) Göran Persson (S/SAP) (1996 – 2002)
		Thomas Östros (born 1965)	6 October 1998	21 October 2004	6 years, 15 days	Social Democrat	– 2002	Göran Persson (S/SAP)
		Leif Pagrotsky (born 1951)	21 October 2004	6 October 2006	1 year, 350 days	Social Democrat	–	Göran Persson (S/SAP)
		Lars Leijonborg (born 1949)	6 October 2006	7 September 2007	336 days	Liberal	2006	Fredrik Reinfeldt (M)
		Jan Björklund (born 1962)	7 September 2007	3 October 2014	7 years, 26 days	Liberal	– 2010	Fredrik Reinfeldt (M)
		Gustav Fridolin (born 1983)	3 October 2014	21 January 2019	4 years, 110 days	Green	2014	Stefan Löfven (S/SAP)
		Anna Ekström (born 1959)	21 January 2019	Incumbent	3 years, 33 days	Social Democrat	2018	Stefan Löfven Magdalena Andersson (S/SAP)