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Hjalmar Mehr on the left, with former vice Mayor Yngve Larsson inside Stockholm City Hall 1963

Hjalmar Leo Mehr (1910 - 1979) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and mayor of Stockholm (1958 - 1966, 1970 - 1971). He promoted many radical socialist policies but is, tragically, mostly remembered and critizied for the redevelopment of Norrmalm, where main parts of the old Stockholm was demolished.

Hjalmar Mehr's parents Sara and Bernhard Meyerowitch were Russian-Jewish revolutionaries who after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution fled to Sweden, where Hjalmar was born and named after Hjalmar Branting.

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