Magnus Sjöberg

Swedish jurist (1927–2024)

Magnus Sjöberg

President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden
In office
1990–1994
Monarch| Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister| Carl Bildt
Ingvar Carlsson
Preceded by| Bengt Hamdahl
Succeeded by| Göran Wahlgren
Prosecutor-General of Sweden
In office
1978–1989
Monarch| Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister| Ingvar Carlsson
Olof Palme
Ola Ullsten
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Preceded by| Holger Romander
Succeeded by| Torsten Jonsson
Personal details
Born|

Karl Gustaf Magnus Sjöberg

(1927-09-26)26 September 1927
Klinte, Sweden
Died| 29 December 2024(2024-12-29) (aged 97)
Södertälje, Sweden
Spouse|

Ragnhild Ljunggren

(m. 1931)​

Alma mater| Uppsala University
Profession| Jurist

Karl Gustaf Magnus Sjöberg (26 September 1927 – 29 December 2024) was a Swedish jurist. He served as the Prosecutor-General of Sweden from 1978 to 1989, and as President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden from 1990 to 1994.

## Early life

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Sjöberg was born in Klinte, Sweden on 26 September 1927, the son of the Gustaf Sjöberg, a provost, and his wife Elsa (born Kloetzen). He received a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1953.[1]

## Career

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Sjöberg did his clerkship from 1953 to 1956. Sjöberg served as an extra legal clerk (fiskal) in the Svea Court of Appeal in 1956 and tingsrätt secretary in the Nedansiljan Judicial District from 1957 to 1959. Sjöberg was then a judge (rådman) in Visby from 1959 to 1961 and a co-opted member of the Svea Court of Appeal from 1961 to 1962, and became an associate judge there in 1963. He became a hovrättsråd in 1969. He was deputy secretary of the 1st Committee on Civil Law (Första lagutskottet) from 1963 to 1964, and secretary there from 1964 to 1965. Sjöberg was an expert at the Ministry of Justice from 1965 to 1967, and served as acting deputy director-general (departementsråd) in the Prime Minister's Office (Statsrådsberedningen) in 1967. He was then director-general for legal affairs (rättschef) there from 1967 to 1972, Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1972 to 1978, and Prosecutor-General of Sweden from 1978 to 1989. Sjöberg served as President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden from 1990 to 1994.[1]

Sjöberg was chairman of a number of boards and associations: Swedish Association of Criminalists (Svenska kriminalistföreningen) from 1980 to 1989, the Swedish department of the AIDP from 1981 to 1989, the BONUS association from 1973, the Board of Prison Terms (Kriminalvårdsnämnden) from 1995, the Disciplinary Committee of the Authorized Public Accountants' Association (Föreningen Auktoriserade Revisorers disciplinnämnd) from 1994 and of the Institute for Research in Law History (Stiftelsen Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning) from 1996. Sjöberg became an honorary member of the Gotlands nation at Uppsala University in 1988.[1]

## Personal life and death

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In 1953, he married Ragnhild Ljunggren (born 1931), a pharmacist, the daughter of Bengt Ljunggren and Elisabeth (née Wistrand).[1]

Sjöberg died on 29 December 2024, at the age of 97.[2]

## Awards and decorations

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* H. M. The King's Medal, 12th size gold medal worn around the neck on a chain of gold (silver-gilt) (1993)[3]
* Commander of the Order of the Polar Star (18 November 1971)[4]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Salander Mortensen, Jill, ed. (1996). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1997] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 1012\. ISBN 91-1-960852-7. SELIBR 3681533.
2. ^ "Magnus Sjöberg". familjesidan.se. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
3. ^ "Sök ordens- och medaljförläningar" (in Swedish). Royal Court of Sweden. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
4. ^ Kungl. Hovstaterna: Kungl. Maj:ts Ordens arkiv, Matriklar (D 1), vol. 14 (1970–1979), p. 225, digital imaging.

Legal offices

Preceded by

Holger Romander

|  Prosecutor-General of Sweden
1978–1989  | Succeeded by

Torsten Jonsson

Preceded by

Bengt Hamdahl

|  President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden
1990–1994  | Succeeded by

Göran Wahlgren
*[m.]: married