Lars Eskil Anders Erlandsson (born 25 January 1957) is a Swedish people politician who served as Minister for Rural Affairs from 2010 to 2014, having previously served as Minister for Agriculture from 2006 to 2010.[ Members of the Swedish Government 1946-, Government of Sweden, accessed 2010-07-09][ Eskil Erlandsson - CV , Government of Sweden] A member of the Centre Party, he was MP of the Swedish Riksdag from 1994 to 2019.
Biography
Erlandsson is the son of Sven Arne and Inga Gullie Erlandsson.
[ Sveriges dödbok 1901-2009, CD-ROM version 5.00, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2010] He comes from
Torpa in
Ljungby[ Sveriges befolkning 1970, CD-ROM version 1.04, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2002] and lives on the farm Stackarp in Torpa where his brother is running the farm. By profession he is an
agriculture with a graduate of SLU
Alnarp. He also studied at the Växjö University from 1989 to 1992.
Political career
From 1983 to 1994, Erlandsson was a
municipality councilor in
Ljungby. He's since 1994 a member of the Swedish Parliament for
Kronoberg County, but on leave since 2006 after becoming
cabinet minister. He was a member of the Environment and
Agriculture Committee from 1998 to 2002 and Chairman of the
Military Committee from 2002 to 2006.
He has also served as deputy of the Housing Committee, the Environment and Agriculture Committee, the Taxation Committee, the Enterprise Committee and the Committee on European Union Affairs. From 2002 to 2006, Eskilsson was also alternately chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Foreign and Defence Committee.
Personal life
He has been married to Susanne Adlercreutz since April 2012 with whom he has a son, born in July 2012 and a daughter born in December 2013.
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