Baron Louis Gerard De Geer of
Finspång (18 July 181824 September 1896) was a
Swedish statesman and writer. De Geer was born at
Finspång Castle in Risinge parish. He was a lawyer, and in 1855 became president of the Göta hovrätt, or lord justice for the appellate court of
Götaland. From 7 April 1858 to 3 June 1870 he was
Prime Minister for Justice and again from 11 May 1875 to 20 March 1876. As a member of the nobility he took part in the Swedish
Riksdag of the Estates from 1851 onwards. From 1867 to 1878 he was the member for
Stockholm in the first chamber in the
New Riksdag, and introduced and passed many useful reforms.