{{Short description|Swedish jurist (1908–2000)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sven Edling | image = | image_size = | caption = | order = | office1 = President of the Supreme Court of Sweden | term_start1 = 1973 | term_end1 = 1976 | monarch1 = Carl XVI Gustaf | prime_minister1 = Olof Palme | predecessor1 = Sven Romanus | successor1 = Otto Petrén | office2 = Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden | term_start2 = 1953 | term_end2 = 1973 | birth_name = Sven Åke Edling | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|12|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|8|23|1908|12|9|df=yes}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_cause = | party = | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = {{marriage|Gulli Bärnheim|1934|2000}} | children = 3 | parents = <!-- overrides mother and father parameters --> | mother = <!-- may be used (optionally with father parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | father = <!-- may be used (optionally with mother parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Jurist }} '''Sven Åke Edling''' (9 December 1908 – 23 August 2000) was a Swedish civil servant. He served as President of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1973 to 1976.
==Early life== Edling was born on 9 December 1908 in {{ill|Gustaf Vasa Parish|sv|Gustaf Vasa församling}}, Stockholm, Sweden, the son of the district court judge (''häradshövding'') {{ill|Holdo Edling|sv}} and his wife Elsa (née Lundberg). He passed ''studentexamen'' in Kristianstad in 1927 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1931.<ref name="Harnesk (1962), p. 302">{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm62/0326.html |editor1-last=Harnesk |editor1-first=Paul |date=1962 |title=Vem är vem? |volume=1, Stor-Stockholm |trans-title=Who's Who? |edition=2nd |location=Stockholm |publisher=Vem är vem bokförlag |language=sv |id={{SELIBR|53509}} |page=302}}</ref>
==Career== Edling carried out court service in Gärd and Albo Hundred's judicial districts (''Gärds och Albo häraders domsaga'') in Kristianstad County from 1931 to 1934 and became an extra legal clerk (''fiskal'') in 1935. He served as an assessor in the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm in 1943 (temporary officer in 1941), and as director (''byråchef'') for law matters in the Ministry of Justice in 1946 (acting in 1945). Edling became ''hovrättsråd'' at the Court of Appeal for Southern Norrland in Sundsvall in 1947 and served as a state secretary at the Ministry of Justice in 1949. He became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden in 1953.<ref name="Harnesk (1962), p. 302"/> Edling served as chairman of the Council on Legislation from 1965 to 1969, and as department chairman in the Supreme Court of Sweden in 1969 and as President of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1973 to 1976. After that, Edling again served as chairman of the Council on Legislation from 1976 to 1980.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 253">{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0253.html |editor-last=Salander Mortensen |editor-first=Jill |year=1996 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1997 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |isbn=91-1-960852-7 |language=sv |id={{SELIBR|3681533}} |page=253}}</ref>
Edling also served as a secretary in the Reparations for War Damages Investigation (''krigsskadeutredningen'') with several investigations from 1939 to 1941, in the Second Law Committee from 1941 to 1942, and as legal assistant to the Chief of the Army from 1947 to 1953.<ref name="Harnesk (1962), p. 302"/> He was a member of the central board of administration of the Oscar II's Jubilee Fund from 1955 to 1974, served as chairman of the Oscar II's Jubilee Fund, of the Gustaf V's Jubilee Fund, of the Gustaf V's 80th Anniversary Fund, and of the Gustaf V's 90th Anniversary Fund from 1974 to 1983. He was also inspector of {{ill|Mörby School|lt=Mörby Secondary School|sv|Mörbyskolan}} from 1955 to 1958.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 253"/>
==Personal life== In 1934, Edling married Gulli Bärnheim (1909–2005), the daughter of John Nilsson and Selma Persson. He was the father of jurist {{ill|Staffan Edling|sv}} (1936–1992), Catharina (born 1939), and Måns (born 1946).<ref name="Harnesk (1962), p. 302"/>
==Death== Edling died on 23 August 2000 in Engelbrekt Parish, Stockholm, Sweden. He was interred at Bromma Cemetery on 28 September 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svenskagravar.se/gravsatt/46015260 |website=www.svenskagravar.se |title=Edling, SVEN ÅKE |access-date=22 February 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
==Awards and decorations== * 50x50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (21 November 1963)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/E0000848_00089#?c=&m=&s=&cv=88&xywh=25%2C18%2C3431%2C1880 |publisher=Royal Court of Sweden |work=Kungl. Maj:ts Ordens arkiv |title=Matriklar (D 1) |trans-title=Directory (D 1) |volume=13 |page=170 |date=1960–1969 |access-date=16 December 2025 |language=sv |via=National Archives of Sweden |url-access=registration}}</ref> * 50x50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} H. M. The King's Medal, 12th size gold (silver-gilt) medal worn around the neck on the Order of the Seraphim ribbon (1979)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kungahuset.se/sveriges-monarki/ordnar-och-medaljer/sok-ordens--och-medaljforlaningar/1979/2021-07-09-sven-edling |publisher=Royal Court of Sweden |title=Sven Edling |access-date=22 February 2023 |language=sv}}</ref> * 50x50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Seraphim Medal (1984)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kungahuset.se/sveriges-monarki/ordnar-och-medaljer/sok-ordens--och-medaljforlaningar?medaljar=1984&medaljtyp=0&medaljnamn=Edling#! |publisher=Royal Court of Sweden |title=Sök ordens- och medaljförläningar |access-date=22 February 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Edling, Sven}} Category:1908 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Presidents of the Supreme Court of Sweden Category:People from Stockholm Category:Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star Category:20th-century Swedish judges Category:Lund University alumni