Gerhard Louis de Geer - Person

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In the early 1900s Louis De Geer was everything a politician should be: wealthy, from a noble family and a high-ranking government official. His father had implemented the representationsreformen in 1865, and now he would hand over power to the parties after the first election with general voting rights.

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