Minister of Civil Affairs
Axel Gustav Adlercreutz took which position between Feb 1869 and Apr 1869?
Axel Gustav Adlercreutz Axel Gustaf Adlercreutz ( March 2 , 1821 – May 20 , 1880 ) was a Swedish politician , civil servant , President of the Göta Court of Appeal , Minister in the Cabinet , Member of Parliament 1847–66 and 1877–80 , Prime Minister for Justice 1870–74 . Married 1853 to Baroness Hedvig Lewenhaupt , with whom he had ten children . Life . Axel Adlercreutz was born in Skara in present-day Västra Götaland County , the son of Lieutenant General Gustaf Magnus Adlercreutz and Margareta Elisabeth Charlotta von Arbin . He received a Bachelor of Laws degree at Uppsala 1845 and then made a typical and successful career in the civil service : clerk at the Legal , Financial and Administrative Services Agency and at the Bureau for Justice Affairs ( Justitierevisionen ) , then a notary at the Svea Court of Appeal , Deputy District Judge ( vice häradshövding ) 1848 , Public Prosecutor ( fiskal ) 1850 , Assessor 1853 and Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden 1860 , finally becoming President of Göta Court of Appeal 1868 . Adlercreutz barely had time to take up his office before King Charles XV appointed him Minister of Civil Affairs in the Cabinet of Louis De Geer , despite the fact that Adlercreutz had opposed the abolition of the Parliament of the Estates , a minor revolution that had been the work of De Geer . One explanation for the Kings choice was a desire to placate a Parliament that had adopted a cool attitude toward the Government after the Representation Reform Act of 1865-66 . The Second Chamber was dominated by fiscally conservative farmers who adopted cuts in the Governments budget proposal , backed up by the First Chamber where resentment toward the Representation Reform still lingered . When the criticism did not abate , De Geer also lost the support of the King and resigned . As the strongest figure in the Privy Council , Adlercreutz now became Prime Minister for Justice . The King now intervened more openly with Government affairs , which undermined the position of the Privy Council . Charles announced in his Throne Speech that he intended to summon an extraordinary Parliament in order to solve the issue of defense policy . Not even all members of the Council had been notified in advance . When , at this extraordinary Parliament , the Government lost the vote on defense policy , all members of the Privy Council requested to be relieved of their office . While the King attempted to compose a new government , Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Wachtmeister suffered a stroke in the street and fell dead to the ground . Except a frail health , he had been upset and worried during the crisis of government . 23 days after the resignation applications , the Posttidningen declared that since efforts to form a new Privy Council had failed to achieve their intended objective , the current members of the Privy Council had offered to remain in their offices , upon the Kings request . Thus Adlercreutz oversaw the change on the throne after Charles XV , who died in 1872 after some time of disease at the age of 46 , to the Kings brother , Oscar II . In 1873 , the issue of defense policy was solved by a compromise engineered by De Geer in his capacity as Chairman of the Parliament Defense Committee . Nevertheless , conflict arose the following year over a question concerning the organization of the Army , over which Adlercreutz to some surprise demanded a vote of confidence and lost . Upon his resignation he was appointed Governor of Malmöhus County . In that district , he was returned to the bicameral Parliament of 1877 , after having been absent since the abolition of the Parliament of the Estates , wherein he had belonged to the Estate of the Nobility . After his resignation he became an outspoken critic of the policy of the De Geer Cabinet ; among other issues he opposed the abolition of the duty of conveyance which the major part of farmers owed the King . He tabled motions on legislation against lotteries . Axel Adlercreutz was of a hot-tempered and courageous nature . He never hesitated to give as good as he got on the floor of Parliament . Count Henning Hamilton , used to being treated with great deference , was nonplussed when Adlercreutz rebuked him for his gibes . When De Geer lamented the coarse tone of the debate , Adlercreutz replied that it was only the final powerless twitches of the defeated . With his undaunted spirit and naïvete , he also passed quite unscathed through Parliament despite all attempts to bring him down . He was small and brave as a weasel , Carl Wadenstierna , his colleague in Parliament , said of him . Axel Adlercreutz died May 20 , 1880 , in Stockholm , at the age of 59 . This article is to a large extent a translation of the equivalent article in the Swedish-language Wikipedia .