{{Short description|Swedish politician and civil servant (1906–2005)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sven Romanus | image = Sven Romanus.jpg | image_size = | caption = | order = | office = Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden | term_start = 18 October 1978 | term_end = 12 October 1979 | monarch = Carl XVI Gustaf | prime_minister = Ola Ullsten | predecessor = Ola Ullsten | successor = Ingemar Mundebo | order2 = | office2 = Minister for Justice | term_start2 = 8 October 1976 | term_end2 = 12 October 1979 | monarch2 = Carl XVI Gustaf | prime_minister2 = Thorbjörn Fälldin<br>Ola Ullsten | predecessor2 = Lennart Geijer | successor2 = Håkan Winberg | order3 = | office3 = President of the Supreme Court of Sweden | term_start3 = 1969 | term_end3 = 1973 | monarch3 = Gustaf VI Adolf | prime_minister3 = Olof Palme | predecessor3 = Nils Beckman | successor3 = Sven Edling | office4 = Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden | term_start4 = 1951 | term_end4 = 1969 | pronunciation = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|1|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = Karlstad, Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|4|30|1906|1|19|df=yes}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_cause = | party = Independent | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = {{marriage|Alfhild Sandfærhus|1932|1996|end=her death}} | 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 Einar Romanus''' (19 January 1906 – 30 April 2005) was a Swedish civil servant. He served as President of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1969 to 1973, as Minister for Justice from 1976 to 1979 and as Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 1978 to 1979.
==Early life== Romanus was born on 19 January 1906 in Karlstad, Sweden, the son of lector Anton Romanus and his wife Reidunn (née Lindboe).<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945"/> He was uncle of Gabriel Romanus. Romanus passed ''studentexamen'' in Östersund in 1924.<ref name="Harnesk (1945), p. 695"/> Romanus received a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1929.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945"/>
==Career== Romanus worked as a law clerk in the Svea Court of Appeal in 1929, became an assessor in 1939, and was director in the Ministry of Justice from 1944 to 1947. Romanus was appointed ''Hovrättsråd'' in 1946 and was a member of the Swedish state legislative committee (''Lagberedningen'') from 1947 to 1950. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1951 to 1973, as department chairman in the Supreme Court in 1966, and as President of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1969 to 1973. Romanus was Minister for Justice from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945"/>
Romanus was also a member, secretary, chairman etc of different committees, commissions, investigations, and councils. He was notary and secretary in various Parliamentary committees in the Riksdag from 1936 to 1942, a substitute in the Labour Court (''Arbetsdomstolen'') in 1941 and vice chairman from 1949 to 1950.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945"/> Romanus was assigned to the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs and in Ministry of Justice from 1941 to 1943, was secretary of the ''1941 års befolkningsutredning'' ("1941 Population Survey") from 1941 to 1944, the Parliamentary Investigation Commission (''Parlamentariska undersökningskommissionen'') from 1945 to 1947, and served as Deputy Justice Ombudsman from 1948 to 1949.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945"/> Furthermore, Romanus was vice chairman of the Swedish Press Council from 1956 to 1959, chairman there from 1960 to 1976, chairman of the Swedish Youth Correctional Board (''Ungdomsfängelsenämnden'') from 1958 to 1969, of the Council on Legislation from 1962 to 1964, of the ''Kommittén för lagstiftning om yttrande- och tryckfrihet'' ("Committee on Legislation on Freedom of Expression and Press") from 1965 to 1972, if the ''Massmedieutredningen'' ("Mass Media Investigation") from 1970 to 1976, of the ''Programrådet för radioaktivt avfall'' ("Radioactive Waste Program Council") from 1980 to 1981, and of the ''Nämnden för hantering av använt kärnbränsle'' ("Committee for the Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel") from 1981 to 1984.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945"/>
==Personal life== In 1932 he married Alfhild Sandfærhus (1909–1996), the daughter of Hans Sandfærhus and Kari (née Hegstad).<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 945">{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0945.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=945}}</ref> They had three children: Barbro (born 1934), Kurt (born 1937), and Gunilla (born 1943).<ref name="Harnesk (1945), p. 695">{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm45/0711.html |editor1-last=Harnesk |editor1-first=Paul |date=1945 |title=Vem är vem?. D. 1, Stockholmsdelen |trans-title=Who's Who?. D. 1, Stockholm part |location=Stockholm |publisher=Vem är vem bokförlag |language=sv |id={{SELIBR|8198269}} |page=695}}</ref>
==Awards and decorations== * 50x50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (6 June 1961)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/65665/1/gupea_2077_65665_1.pdf |title=Sveriges statskalender. 1969 |editor-first=Bengt |editor-last=Sköldenberg |year=1969 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Stockholm |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|3682754}} |page=152}}</ref> * 50x50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Seraphim Medal (1980)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kungahuset.se/sveriges-monarki/ordnar-och-medaljer/sok-ordens--och-medaljforlaningar?medaljar=0&medaljtyp=0&medaljnamn=Romanus#! |publisher=Royal Court of Sweden |title=Sök ordens- och medaljförläningar |access-date=22 February 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{S-start}} {{s-legal}} {{Succession box | title = {{no wrap|President of the Supreme Court of Sweden}} | years = 1969–1973 | before = Nils Beckman | after = Sven Edling }} {{s-gov}} {{Succession box | title = Minister for Justice | years = 8 October 1976 – 12 October 1979 | before = Lennart Geijer | after = Håkan Winberg }} {{Succession box | title = Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden | years = 18 October 1978 – 12 October 1979 | before = Ola Ullsten | after = Ingemar Mundebo }} {{S-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Romanus, Sven}} Category:1906 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Ministers for justice of Sweden Category:Presidents of the Supreme Court of Sweden Category:People from Karlstad Category:Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star Category:20th-century Swedish judges