Career
Foreign the Swedish ice hockey player, see Stig-Göran Johansson. He was for many years the chairman (commissioner) of the Gothenburg Municipality Executive Board. With a working class background, he was a union leader at his workplace at Svenska Kullagerfabriken and later became the Social Democratic Party"s "strong man" in Gothenburg.
He was one of the best known politicians in Sweden and was voted as one of the nation"s most popular politicians.
However meanwhile he had been criticized for an undemocratic leadership which made several – especially female – politicians leave their assignments within the Social Democratic Party. Johansson suffered from discoid lupus erythematosus, DLE, (reference needed), which caused his face to look swollen and red.
He was longlisted for the 2008 World Mayor award. Like New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, Johansson took public transit to work.
He is the father of Anna Johansson, who currently serves Minister for Infrastructure in the Swedish Government since 3 October 2014.
Johansson died on 23 October 2014 at the age of 69.
