Per Sigfrid (tvilling) Wieselgren

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On the back of his photo is written: "Sigfrid Wieselgren 1863" Sigfrid Wieselgren Per Sigfrid Wieselgren, born November 26, 1843 in Västerstad, Malmöhus, Skåne, died October 11, 1910 in Göteborg. He was an officer, politician, temperance promoter and a white writer, and the son of Peter Wieselgren. Wieselgren became a student in Uppsala in 1861 and Ph.D. in 1869 and took graduate courses at the University of Lund in 1870. He registered as a student teacher in the Gota Court of Appeals in 1870, and became the third town hall secretary in 1872 in Gothenburg. Also the same year he became a Master of Laws. In 1874 he was Secretary of the Gothenburg Police House, 1884 Justice alderman in the same city and the same year member of the enhanced law drafting panel. He was appointed in 1885 to be Director General and Head of the Prison Board. Since Wieselgren while in Gothenburg emerged as a prominate lecturer and essayist in the press, he received an early municipal mandate. In 1876-87 he was one of Gothenburg's city representatives in the parliament's second chamber and was included from the beginning in the House's so-called center, in which he, after several years had supremacy. His moderates and free trade views which he proposed in those days, he continued to defend as a member of the First House, where he was elected in the autumn of 1887 by the City of Göteborg, and represented the town until his death. In1878 kyrkomote Wieselgren was selected as an alternate member in both Göteborg and Skara dioceses. He followed his predecessor GustafFridolf Almquist's reform of the prison system, which included extension of the cell system, and making appropriate arrangement for the released prisoners to have the right to dispose of their earnings and promoted support activities to combate recidivism. The first Act was a radical step on July 29, 1892 about forced labor and the imprisonment of executives in private. During the time Wieselgren lead the Swedish prison system the number of UK he personally reduced from eight to four. He also reorganized the remaining community prison for women that retained the old night cell system. BESIDES, the old chronological workstations were replaced and in time became ordered forced labor institutions. The second order case was promoted by regulations on October 24, 1890 which concerned prisoners' work premiums, and improved the working operation since the prison, during various government administrations, had taken over the duties and the prison staff was trained in various types of professional skills. Wieselgren was appointed Sweden's representative on numerous foreign congresses of penal cases. Within the parliament Wieselgren worked on new Laws (1877-78) and kanslideputationen (1879-80) and sat on ten temporary committees (1882, 1883, 1885, 1890, 1893, 1895, on two in 1896 and 1900 and 1901), as chairman of all except the first two. He belonged to a special committee, which in 1902 considered drafting laws on compulsory education of young offenders and neglected children. He was also a member of tvangsuppfostringskommitten in 1896. He was called as a member or honorary member of the prison societies in France, England and Switzerland. In 1898 he became honorary member of Science and vitterhetssamhallet in Gothenburg. Wieselgren was elected a member of Gothenburg's on-board in 1874 and held several sobriety promotions of reform in line with "Gothenburg's" original purpose. In its publication in 1880, If Swedish branvinslagstiftningen 1855-77 he brgan a feud against the Committee's 1878 proposal to waive the 1855 basis of the vodka law, with a sanction, when these plans were thwarted Wieselgren joined the Committee, and thus was asked to make suggestions on taxation of malt beverages. Wieselgren was even involved in the international discussions of this important issue. His written Gothenburg system, its origins, purposes and effects (1881) was requested to be translated into both English and German (1882, second edition 1886). The essays, in which he withdrew in 1883 next to the "ring movement's spirit policies, was translated into German (" Der Branntwein im Program der Arbeiterringe", 1884), and his sobriety issues after the friendly Party victory of 1885 to Parliament published a description of the fighting about the Swedish vodka law of 1835-85 was translated and printed in Germany, England and America and was published also in France. Wieselgren was appointed a member of the 1886 and 1889 commissions for the issuance and dissemination of writings of sober public advocacy and later became, after Magnus Huss resignation, Chairman of the Commission . He was chairman of The Swedish Temperance Society, from 1893. Wieselgren at the request of the Board for the third World Anti-alcohol Congress in Kristiania in 1889 delivered the story of the Gothenburg's effects to the press in English and German and he became the leader of the French, Belgium and English temperance societies in 1898 with the publication of further statistics in these countries by the French edition ("the results you Systeme de Bourg Gothem"). The English man Whyte, wrote in 1893 about the Wieselgren system, "More about the Gothenburg System, a critical review "(English edition, "Even a Word about the Gothenburg System", 1899) stating that Wieselgren asked if in the scriptures the moderate temperance friends program and the moderate temperance activities are obsolete? (1895) as well as the ethics, pedagogy and policy in the Swedish temperance activities (1896). Literature: From Gothenburg Hdfder - if the rulers and the ruled 1621-1748, Sigfrid Wieselgren, PA Norstedt & Sons, Stockholm 1878