Background
He was the son of postmaster Åke Geijer and Anna Sylvan.
politician Member of the Riksdag
He was the son of postmaster Åke Geijer and Anna Sylvan.
Lennart Geijer studied at Lund University, and became Candidate of Law in 1933.
He is mainly remembered for his role in the Geijer Scandal (Swedish: Geijeraffären). After two years of service he got a leading position at Hyresgästföreningen. He was minister 1966-1976, minister without portfolio 1966-1969 and Minister of Justice 1969-1976.
Geijer strove during his tenure as minister to reduce the use of imprisonment and to make imprisonment more humane and focused on care and rehabilitation.
The same policy goals made rightwingers, and officials in the Swedish police. on the other hand, to regard him as too naive and permissive towards criminal disorder. Geijer was Swedish Minister of Justice during the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in 1975, when Holger Meins"s commando, of the armed left extremist organization Red Army Faction (Royal Air Force) took the West German Embassy in Skarpö Street in Gärdet in Stockholm.
During the drama Geijer negotiated with the terrorists in the embassy building. The Geijer scandal
Geijer was one of those involved in the political scandal known as the Geijer Scandal in the 1970s, which involved exploitation of prostitutes organized by the brothel madam Doris Hopp.
The scandal has been the subject of prostitute and criminal Lillemor Östlin"s autobiography Hinsehäxan (2005) as well as journalist Peter Bratt"s memoirs Medical rent uppsåt (2007) and the movie Call Girl by Swedish director Mikael Marcimain (2012).