Rudolf Meidner
Rudolf Alfred Meidner, born June 23 1914 in Wrocław, Poland (as of 1914, Breslau, Germany), died December 9 2005 in Lidingö, Sweden.
Son of Alfred Meidner and Elise Bandmann. Being Jewish and a Socialist he was forced to flee Nazi Germany after the Reichstag fire in Berlin 1933. In 1937 he was married to Ella Jörgenssen. He became a citizen of Sweden in 1943.
He was an economist and the developer of the employee funds as they were proposed by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in the 1970s. He got his PhD in 1954 with a dissertation labeled "Swedish Working Market at Full Employment".
He spent most of his work life at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation as a researcher.
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