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Johan Lennart Geijer (14 September 1909 - 16 June 1999), was a Swedish politician and lawyer.〔 He was the son of postmaster Åke Geijer and Anna Sylvan. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Geijer Scandal ((スウェーデン語:Geijeraffären)). ==Biography== Lennart Geijer studied at Lund University, and became Candidate of Law in 1933. After two years of service he got a leading position at Hyresgästföreningen. He was minister 1966-76, minister without portfolio 1966-69 and Minister of Justice 1969-76. 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. These policy goals made him admired by the Swedish left- wing as an progressive champion of the weak and dispossed in the Swedish society. The same policy goals made right- wingers, 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 (RAF) took the West German Embassy in Skarpö Street in Gärdet in Stockholm. During the drama Geijer negotiated with the terrorists in the embassy building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lennart Geijer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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