Yngve Larsson

Who was Yngve Larsson?

Gustaf Richard Yngve Larsson was a Swedish Ph.D., Municipal commissioner, Member of Parliament and statesman.

He was a marked modernist and was for 22 years a leading vice Mayor of Stockholm, in charge of urban development, and politically leading behind several of the city's largest urban development projects of the 20th century, including Slussen, Stockholm Metro and the major redevelopment of Norrmalm borough in central Stockholm. Larsson's role in the post-war planning of Stockholm and its new suburbs was internationally recognized. The American city planner Clarence Stein wrote that:

During the Second World War, Larsson was also a leading Nordic anti-nazi, and a board member of Samfundet Nordens Frihet and chairman of Svensk-Norska föreningen. He was awarded several Swedish and foreign state orders. In 1946, King Haakon VII appointed Larsson as a Commander with Star of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav "for particularly outstanding merits of the Norwegian Resistance during the war." He also received the French Legion of Honour, Swedish Order of the Polar Star and Order of Vasa and the Order of the White Rose of Finland.