{{Short description|Swedish politician (1890–1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Gerhard Strindlund.jpg | image_size = | caption = | office = Minister of Communications (Transport) | term_start = 1938 | term_end = 1939 | prime_minister = Per Albin Hansson | predecessor = Albert Forslund | successor = | office1 = Minister for Social Affairs | term_start1 = 1936 | term_end1 = December 1936 | prime_minister1 = | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | birth_date = 24 September 1890 | birth_place = Sollefteå parish, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|1957|10|10|1890|9|24|df=y}} | death_place = Essinge parish, Stockholm county, Sweden | party = Agrarian Party | spouse = | occupation = Agronomist }} '''Gerhard Strindlund''' (1890–1957) was a Swedish politician who held various cabinet posts in the 1930s. He was a member of the Agrarian Party.
==Biography== Strindlund was born in Sollefteå parish, Västernorrland county, on 24 September 1890.<ref name=sbl/> He studied agriculture in Denmark.<ref name=sbl/> In 1921 he joined the Agrarian Party and was elected to the Riksdag.<ref name=sbl/> In 1936 he was appointed minister for social affairs.<ref name=sbl/> In 1938 he was named as the minister of communications (Transport) in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson replacing Albert Forslund in the post.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Lars Magnusson|author2=Jan Ottosson|title=State Intervention and the Role of History - state and private actors in Swedish network industries|journal=Review of Political Economy|year=2000 |volume=12|issue=2|page=199|doi=10.1080/095382500406503|s2cid=153827403 }}</ref> Strindlund resigned from the office in December 1939.<ref name=sbl/> In 1941 Strindlund was appointed director general and head of the Swedish Forest Agency and left the Riksdag.<ref name=sbl/> During his term at the Riksdag he was among those who attempted to formulate a special kind of compensation to blind people.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Staffan Förhammar|title=Educating through Social Policy: Compensation for Blindness in Sweden – An Example of Creating Norms and Identities |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research|year=2006|volume=8|issue=4|pages=211–231 |doi=10.1080/15017410600562243|doi-access=free}}</ref> His tenure as director general of the agency lasted until 1953.<ref name=sbl/>
Strindlund died in Essinge parish, Stockholm county, on 10 October 1957.<ref name=sbl>{{cite web|author=Jarl Torbacke|title=Gerhard Strindlund |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=34547&forceOrdinarySite=true|publisher=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|access-date=8 July 2022|language=sv}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Strindlund, Gerhard}} Category:1890 births Category:1957 deaths Category:Members of the Riksdag from the Centre Party (Sweden) Category:Ministers for social affairs of Sweden Category:Ministers for communications of Sweden Category:Swedish agronomists Category:People from Sollefteå Category:20th-century agronomists