Felix Hamrin
Brief 1932 caretaker Prime Minister of Sweden, governing for months at the trough of the Great Depression — when one third of all Swedish workers were unemployed — between Carl Gustaf Ekman's resignation and the September 1932 election that brought the Social Democrats to power.
Felix Hamrin held the Swedish premiership briefly in 1932, inheriting power after Carl Gustaf Ekman’s exit and serving until the September 1932 election. He came from the same Free-minded People’s Party (Frisinnade folkpartiet) tradition that today’s Liberalerna descends from.
His months in office coincided with the worst point of the Swedish Depression: roughly one third of all Swedish workers were unemployed. The 1932 election that ended his tenure brought Socialdemokraterna under Per Albin Hansson into government — opening what would become an almost uninterrupted 44-year Social Democratic dominance.
Hamrin’s name marks a hinge in the Swedish 20th century: the last interwar non-socialist Prime Minister before the long S-bloc era, governing for a few months at the moment when the old liberal order ran out of political answers.