Gunnar Georg Emanuel Strang

Gunnar Georg Emanuel Strang (born Dec. 23, 1906, Jarfall, near Stockholm, Swed.—died March 6, 1992, Stockholm) was a Swedish politician who was finance minister (1955–76) in a succession of Social Democratic cabinets and one of the architects of Sweden’s national social-welfare system. Strang was a self-educated agricultural labourer and trade-union organizer who rose to become president of the Swedish Agricultural Workers’ Union in 1938. After World War II he was elected to the Riksdag (parliament),...