Career
Hjalmar Mehr"s parents Sara and Bernhard Meyerowitch were Russian-Jewish revolutionaries who after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution fled to Sweden, where Hjalmar was born and named after Hjalmar Branting.
Hjalmar Mehr"s parents Sara and Bernhard Meyerowitch were Russian-Jewish revolutionaries who after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution fled to Sweden, where Hjalmar was born and named after Hjalmar Branting.
He promoted many radical socialist welfare state policies but is mostly remembered and criticized for the redevelopment of Norrmalm, where main parts of the old Stockholm was demolished.