The Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs was a member of the government of Sweden. The minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs was the head of the Ministry of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs from 1840 to 1967 which handled matters concerning the church, education, science, culture, medical and general health care as well as poorhouses. The minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs became the minister for education on 1 January 1968.
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Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
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Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld was a Swedish politician and scholar who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917. He was a member of the Riksdag from 1923 to 1938 in the first chamber. He headed Sweden's government during most of World War I, and maintained the nation's neutrality in that conflict. He was ideologically conservative, although he was never officially a member of any political party.
Delegates, including Hammarskjöld (fourth from left), in Karlstad to negotiate the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union, 1905. Karl Staaff (left), is also pictured.
Prime Minister Hammarskjöld on his way from the government building to the parliament in Stockholm in 1917.
Hammarskjöld, c. 1930s