Odd Erik Lennart Engström (20 September 1941 – 18 May 1998) was a politician of the

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. He was born in Silbodal,

Årjäng Årjäng is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Årjäng Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 3,228 inhabitants in 2010. It is located around from the Norway-Sweden border and on the road between Karlstad and Oslo. In 1540 År ...

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and was educated at

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. Engström served as one of two State Secretaries (the other was

Ulf Larsson Ulf Sigfrid "Uffe" Larsson (1 July 1956 – 28 September 2009) was a Swedish actor, revue artist, comedian and stage director. Ulf Larsson was born in Bromma, Stockholm, in 1956. In the early 1980s, he appeared in numerous television shows and ...

) to Prime Minister

Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until as ...

1982–1983. From 1983 he served as Finance Secretary of

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. From 1988 to 1990 he served as deputy Minister for Finance (Minister for Budget), and was the acting Minister for Finance for a short time in February 1990, after

Kjell-Olof Feldt Kjell-Olof Feldt (18 August 1931 – 8 January 2025) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who was minister of finance between 1983 and 1990. Previously, Feldt was assistant minister of finance from 1975 to 1976 and minister of comme ...

resigned. Engström then served as the

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from 1990 to 1991. After the electoral loss of 1991, he was a member of the

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from 1991 to 1993, when he resigned from his seat. From 1995 he served as chairman of the board of investment company Kinnevik, where his friend

Jan Stenbeck Jan Hugo Robert Arne Stenbeck (; 14 November 1942 – 19 August 2002) was a Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier. He was head of Kinnevik Group from 1976 and founded among other things the companies Comviq, Invik & ...

was the major owner. He was married to Gunilla Engström and has one son and one daughter. Engström also did some amateur acting. In 1993 he had a small role in the TV series '' Morsarvet'', which was set in his native

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. Engström died of a heart attack at age 56. (According to journalist

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he died the day before he wanted to give an interview about the real cause of the sinking of the

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.)WDR5 interview, 26 sep 2002 -- rtsp://ras02.wdr.de/radio/radio5/real/neugier/FF2-Estonia-26092002.rm

References

1941 births 1998 deaths People from Årjäng Municipality Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats Ministers of finance of Sweden Deputy prime ministers of Sweden {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub