Thorwald Bergquist

Johan Östling argues that Bergquist was one of the Swedish generation of 1945 figures who had a rationalist approach towards cultural affairs and who experienced the World War I period.

[1] Bergquist was born Nävelsjö, Jönköping County, on 1 December 1899.

[2] After working at courts in 1931 Bergquist became the secretary of the second team committee at the Riksdag.

[2] He was the mayor of Västerås in the period 1933–1939 and director general of the national board of health and welfare between 1939 and 1946.

[3][4] In 1943 he was made justice minister in the same cabinet and held the post until July 1945.