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Rickard Sandler took which position between Feb 1936 and Jun 1936?
Rickard Sandler Rickard Johannes Sandler ( 29 January 1884 – 12 November 1964 ) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician . He served as Minister without Portfolio in the Swedish government from 10 March 1920 to 30 June 1920 , Minister for Finance from 1 July 1920 to 27 October 1920 , Minister without Portfolio from 13 October 1921 to 19 April 1923 , Minister for Trade from 14 October 1924 to 24 January 1925 , Prime Minister from 24 January 1925 to 7 June 1926 , and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 September 1932 to 19 June 1936 and again from 28 September 1936 to 13 December 1939 . Sandler is the only Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister who did not also hold the post of party chairman . He is also the second-youngest Prime Minister of Sweden , aged 41 when he took office . Early life and career . Rickard Sandler was born in Torsåker parish ( now Kramfors Municipality ) , Västernorrland County . His father Johan Sandler was a headmaster at a folk high school and later a Member of Parliament . After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Uppsala University , Rickard Sandler became a teacher at a folk high school in Kramfors ( where his father was headmaster ) and another in Brunnsvik . After joining the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League , Sandlers political career took off . He received a Licentiate of Arts degree in 1911 at the age of 26 , after which he became a member of the board of the Social Democratic Party , and would remain a member until 1952 . In 1917 he became editor-in-chief for Ny Tid , a social democratic newspaper in Gothenburg . Rise in politics . In 1918 , in the government of Prime Minister Nils Edén , Sandler became Secretary of State to the Minister of Finance , Fredrik Thorsson . He continued in the same capacity when Hjalmar Branting became Prime Minister in 1920 . In 1921 when Thorsson went on to start the new Ministry of Trade , Sandler took his place as the Minister of Finance , a capacity he held until 1923 . In Hjalmar Brantings second government ( 1921 – 1923 ) , Sandler was a Minister without Portfolio , and in the third the Minister of Trade . He took the latter position after some persuasion , as he was intent to take up a job as the headmaster of the folk high school in Brunnsvik . As Prime Minister . When Hjalmar Branting became ill and left office before his death in February 1925 , and Fredrik Thorsson who was a likely candidate to replace Branting as Prime Minister also fell sick and died , Sandler was appointed Prime Minister , at the age of 41 . As Prime Minister , Sandler had to deal with the issue of reducing the Swedish military , as had been promised during the election campaign . He was supported by the Freeminded Peoples Party in what became the largest disarmament in Sweden . Following disarmament , the issue of unemployment came into focus when the government annulled a decision by the Unemployment Commission ( arbetslöshetskommissionen ) to deny payment to workers at the Stripa mine who were on strike . The liberal and conservative parties , who held the majority seats in the Riksdag ( parliament ) , disagreed with the government , called for a vote of no confidence , and defeated the government . The 1928 elections saw Arvid Lindman of the conservative General Electoral League becoming the Prime Minister . Foreign affairs . Sandler returned to the government in 1932 as Minister of Foreign Affairs , a post he held ( except for a brief period in 1936 ) until 1939 . Sandler left the government over a disagreement with the Prime Minister about the Winter War . Sandler wanted Sweden to actively help Finland after the Soviet Union had attacked it on 30 November 1939 , a stance the Prime Minister did not hold . Now a Member of Parliament , Sandler continued to be influential in Swedish foreign policy . In 1940 he became a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs ( utrikesutskottet ) , and the chairman from 1946 to 1964 . He was also a United Nations Delegate ( 1947 – 1960 ) . Other achievements . Sandler was Governor of Gävleborg County ( 1941 – 1952 ) . He was chairman of several governmental inquiries , including the Socialization Committee ( 1920 – 1936 ) , a commission appointed to audit the Swedish refugee policy during World War II , known as the Sandler Commission ( 1945 – 1947 ) , and the Commission on the Constitution ( 1954 – 1963 ) . Sandler was one of the founders of The Workers Enlightenment League ( Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund ABF ) in 1912 . He was the main writer of the Marxist-oriented party programme of the Social Democratic Party in 1920 . He published the widely circulated statistical outline of social classes The society as it is ( 1911 ) . Between 1926 and 1932 he was director of Statistics Sweden ( Statistiska centralbyrån ) . Sandler translated Das Kapital by Karl Marx into Swedish , and in 1943 he authored a book on literary and historic secret writings called Cipher . References . - A major expansion of this article on June 23 , 2006 was translated from the Swedish Wikipedia article , . External links . - Government Offices of Sweden