Jarl Hjalmarson

Who was Jarl Hjalmarson?

Jarl Harald Hjalmarson, was the leader of the conservative Swedish Rightist Party, today known as the Moderate Party, between 1950 and 1961.

A moderate conservative, he led the Swedish conservatives to the position as the second-biggest party in Sweden in the 1958 election. Under his leadership, the party undertook a wide agreement with the government to expand the Swedish armed forces in face of the ongoing Cold War and Swedish neutrality and vocally supported the development of Swedish nuclear weapons, which was ultimately abandoned.