Gunnar Georg Emanuel Sträng (23 December 1906 – 7 March 1992) was a Swedish trade union leader and Social Democratic politician, most known for being Sweden's longest serving minister for finance.

A few years later, in 1932, he was elected as an official to the national union organisation for agricultural workers, with the task of recruiting new members in order to force the employers to consent to collective bargaining.

[3][4] Joint taxation of spouses was abolished, a change that made it more economically attractive for women to seek paid employment.

He was also known to have a photographic memory and was able to quote the figures from the national budget by heart in his annual presentations on television and made this dull subject something of a popular event.

[6] In the 1970s Sträng became the face of the record-high taxation in Sweden through an incident with the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren.

Astrid stole his line: Gunnar Sträng was always good at telling stories, but he had never learned to count, it would be better for them to switch jobs.