Both as an industrialist and as a politician he was energetic and goal-oriented. He was a pragmatic conservative without losing his principles and an effective political peace-broker, who sought a policy of compromise with his adversaries. From early on he was strongly opposed to nazism and fascism. When his party's youth organisation started organising uniformed fascist action groups in the 1930s, he saw to it that they were expelled from the party . The "honest thanks over the battle lines" from the social democratic leader Per Albin Hansson when Lindman resigned as party leader in favor of the younger academic and professor Gösta Bagge in 1935 was an expression of the wide-ranging respect that he had. Lindman died in an aircraft crash on 9 December 1936, when the Douglas DC-2 in which he was travelling crashed into houses near Croydon Airport just after taking off in thick fog. References External links 1862 births 1936 deaths People from Östhammar Municipality Leaders of the Moderate Party Members of the Första kammaren Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in England State leaders killed in aviation accidents or incidents Prime Ministers of Sweden Swedish Ministers for Foreign Affairs Swedish Navy rear admirals Members of the Andra kammaren Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen Great Depression in Sweden Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1936 Accidental deaths in London Knights of the Order of Charles XIII Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order