Sture Henriksson

Sture Henriksson (1917–1957) was a Swedish social democrat politician who committed suicide in 1957 while serving as the minister of communications (Transport).

Biography

Henriksson was a member of the Social Democratic Party and served at the Swedish Parliament.[1] In 1949 he was one of the members of the tax commission at the Parliament.[1] He edited the monthly journal of the Social Democratic Party entitled Tiden between 1956 and 1957.[2] He committed suicide while he was serving as the minister of communications (Transport) in 1957.[3] The event occurred after Henriksson was arrested for drunkenness.[4] His colleague Östen Undén later accused a journalist in Expressen of his death.[4]

References
  1. Lena Andersson-Skog; Martin Eriksson (2020). "Family Taxation as Tax Reduction. The Introduction of Income Splitting in Swedish Taxation, 1945–1952". Umeå Papers in Economic History (48): 15, 17. ISSN 1653-7378.
  2. "Nyckeltitel: Tiden" (in Swedish). Libris. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  3. Olof Ruin (1989). Tage Erlander: Serving the Welfare State, 1946-1969. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-8229-7667-7.
  4. Ulrika Knutson (20 June 2018). "Mediedrev leder sällan till självmord". Journalisten (in Swedish).
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