1932
Left bloc · SKreuger Crash and rise of 'S'.
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Highlights
- The Match King falls: Ivar Kreuger suicide causes economic shock.
- 1932 Election: Per Albin Hansson wins with 'Folkhemmet' vision.
- Hegemony: Start of 44 years of Social Democratic rule.
Events in this year
1932 1932 Swedish General Election Held in the depths of the Great Depression and after the Kreuger crash had collapsed Carl Gustaf Ekman's government, the September 1932 Andrakammarval made the Social Democrats the largest party. Per Albin Hansson formed the Hansson I cabinet and launched the first Folkhemmet-era programme of public works, expanded unemployment relief, and counter-cyclical fiscal policy — beginning what would become a near-uninterrupted 44 years of Social Democratic governance. Election 1932-03-12 Kreuger crash 1932 Ivar Kreuger's death in Paris on 12 March 1932 exposed the fragility of a giant finance-industrial empire and forced Swedish authorities into emergency moratorium and bank-support action. The crash turned the depression into a system-level political and banking shock. Economy 1932-07-30 Sweden at the Los Angeles Olympics 1932 Sweden's Los Angeles 1932 Olympic performance added a sports and public-culture layer to a depression year otherwise dominated by the Kreuger crash and election politics. SOK records strong Swedish results, especially in wrestling, and notes David Wallin's art-competition gold. Sports