Ernst Leche
Ernst Henrik Leche (23 July 1897 – 3 April 1978) was a Swedish jurist and a district judge. He is credited with the establishment of the General Security Service (Allmänna säkerhetstjänsten), the predecessor of the Swedish Security Service. Career Leche was born in Karlskrona, the son of Commander Carl Leche and his wife Elisabeth (née Swanlund) and brother of Colonel Hakon Leche. He passed studentexamen in 1915 and became a reserve officer in 1917 and received a Candidate of Law degree in Stockholm in 1920. Leche was acting legal clerk (fiskal) in the Svea Court of Appeal in 1925, co-opted member (adjungerad ledamot) of it in 1926 and assessor in 1929. He was a co-opted member of the Water Court of Appeals (Vattenöverdomstolen) in 1929, an assistance at the Ministry of Justice in 1932 and acting court secretary (revisionssekreterare) in 1933. Leche was director of law cases at the Ministry of Justice from 1935 to 1939 and hovrättsråd at the Court of Appeal for Northern Norrland in 1936. He was district judge (häradshövding) at Nedansiljan Judicial District from 1939 to 1964 and held law ordinances in different judicial districts and hovrätt'''s from 1964 to 1975. He was a member of