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Ossian Berger (13 February 1849 – 28 December 1914) was a Swedish politician and lawyer. He was the minister of justice from 1902 to 1905 and member of the Riksdag (parliament) from 1907 to 1912.
After retiring from politics he continued to work in different legal posts: he returned to his post in Norra Åsbo for a year, before being elected as substitute to the ombudsman in 1906–1907 and from 1908 to 1913, and was again elected as ombudsman in 1913 until his death in 1914. In addition, he was a member of the Riksdag's upper house ( Första kammaren) from 1907 to 1912, from 1907 to 1911 for Kalmar County's southern constituency and in 1912 for Örebro County's constituency. He was non-partisan in 1907, belonged to the upper house's moderate party from 1908 to 1911 and finally described himself as liberal but politically unaffiliated in 1912.
As ombudsman, Berger proposed improvements to laws, law school textbooks, the judiciary and civil rights such as freedom of assembly as well as focusing on the efficiency of the court system. During his time as minister of justice, he was liberal but pro-defense. He pushed for Sweden's accession to the Berne Convention, and had the controversial voting rights issue on his table, but was unable to push for universal and equal voting rights for men in elections to the second chamber because the liberals opposed proportionality.
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