Carl Persson

Carl Johan Gunnar Persson (14 December 1919 – 6 November 2014) was a Swedish jurist and politician. Persson served as the National Police Commissioner of the Swedish Police Authority from 1964 to 1978. His highest profile investigations during his tenure as National Police Commissioner included the hijacking of Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 to Bulltofta Airport in 1972, the Norrmalmstorg robbery in 1973, and the West German Embassy siege by the Red Army Faction in 1975. Persson also served as the president of the Interpol from 1976 to 1980 and as Governor of Halland County from 1978 to 1979 and the Governor of the former county of Gothenburg and Bohus from 1979 to 1980.

Early life Persson was born on 14 December 1919 in Kvidinge, Kristianstad County, Sweden, the son of captain Carl Johan Persson and his wife Anni (née Vallin). He passed studentexamen in Helsingborg in 1938 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1942.

Persson was notary and secretary in Second Law Committee of the Riksdag from 1949 to 1952, and an expert in the Ministry of Justice in 1954, and in the Ministry of the Interior from 1954 to 1955. Persson was head of the lagbyrå in the Ministry of the Interior in 1955 and became head of the Legal Department in 1957. Persson was chairman of the Mental Health Care Council (Mentalsjukvårdsberedningen) 1959–1962, the organization of body and mental health care in Östergötland County from 1962 to 1964, the City of Gothenburg merging with the Gothenburg and Bohus County's county council from 1962 to 1970, the Organizing Committee of the Bailiffs System (Exekutionsväsendets organisationsnämnd) from 1964 to 1969 and the investigation of the headship of the Karolinska Hospital in 1978.