Hamrin Cabinet 1932
Brief Frisinnade folkpartiet caretaker cabinet under Felix Hamrin that held office for a few weeks in 1932 between the fall of Ekman II and the 1932 general election that ushered in 44 years of Social Democratic dominance under Per Albin Hansson.
The Hamrin Cabinet, headed by Felix Hamrin, held the Swedish premiership for only a few weeks in 1932 — bridging the fall of Ekman II and the formation of the first Social Democratic Hansson I Cabinet after the 1932 election. It is best understood as a Frisinnade folkpartiet caretaker, the same Liberal-line predecessor of today’s Liberalerna that had supplied both Ekman cabinets.
The cabinet held office at the peak of the Great Depression, when roughly one-third of Swedish workers were unemployed, and its main political business was managing the country into the 1932 general election. The election delivered the realignment that ended Hamrin’s mandate.
The Hamrin Cabinet matters less for what it did than for what came after: the transfer of power to Per Albin Hansson and Socialdemokraterna that opened a 44-year era of Social Democratic dominance organized around the cross-class compromise of the 1933 Crisis Agreement.