Axel Gustaf Adlercreutz
| Axel Gustaf Adlercreutz | |
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| Swedish Prime Minister for Justice | |
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In office 1870–1880 |
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| Preceded by | Louis Gerhard De Geer |
| Succeeded by | Edvard Carleson |
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March 2, 1821 Skara, Västragötland County |
| Died | May 20, 1880 (aged 59) , |
| Spouse(s) | Countess Hedvig Levenhaupt |
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.
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 King's 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 Government's budget proposal, backed up by the First Chamber where resentment toward the Representation Reform still lingered.
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