List of Västernorrland Governors

This is a list of Governors for Västernorrland County of Sweden, from 1658 to present. Västernorrland was created from the briefly existing Härnösand and Hudiksvall Counties in 1654, which in turn had been separated from Norrland County in 1645.

Johan Oxenstierna (1658-1664) Gustaf Banér (1664) Carl Larsson Sparre (1664-1677) Christopher Gyllenstierna (1677) Jacob Fleming (1677-1679) Göran Sperling (1679-1683) Lennart Ribbing (1683-1687) Otto Vellingk (1687-1693) Carl Gustaf Frölich (1693-1698) Malcolm Hamilton (1698-1699) Axel von Schaar (1699-1702) Carl Carlsson Hård af Segerstad (1702-1704) Alexander Stromberg (1704-1716) Hugo Hamilton (1716-1719) Magnus Palmqvist (1719-1727) Carl Gustaf Bielke (1727-1739) Erik Odelström (1739-1749) Axel Johan Gripenhielm (1749-1755) Karl Gustaf Cronhiort (1755) Mårten Ehrensvan (1755-1757) Fredrik Henrik Sparre (1757-1762) Per Abraham Örnsköld (1762-1769) Germund Abraham Falkengren (1769-1778) Johan Nordenfalk (1778) Carl Bunge (1778-1796)

Erik Gustaf Lindencrona (1796-1807) Carl von Nieroth (1810-1817) Carl Fredrik Aschling (1817-1820) Hampus Mörner (1820-1841) Fredric Åkerman (1841-1851) Sven Vilhelm Gynther (1851-1862) Ernst August Weidenhielm (1863-1873) Curry Treffenberg (1873-1880) Gustaf Ryding (1880-1901) Gustaf Rudebeck (1901-1909) Fredric Engelbert Bergenholtz (1909-1911) Carl Mathias Ström (1911-1918) Karl Johan Stenström (1918-1931) Anders Victor Benedict Wijkman (1931-1938) Nils Löwbeer (1939) Arthur Engberg (1940-1944) Ragnar Stattin (1944-1953) Eric Wesström (1954-1965) Hjalmar Nilsson (1965-1971) Kurt Nordgren (1971-1974) Bertil Löfberg (1975-1989) Ingemar Öhrn (1989-1995) Börje Hörnlund (1996-2000) Gerhard Larsson (2000-present)

See also: Counties of Sweden, County Governors of Sweden