Hilding Hagberg
Karl Hilding Hagberg ( born October 28, 1899 in Gällivare, † December 17, 1993 in Luleå ) was a Swedish politician. From 1951 to 1964 he was Chairman of the Communist Party of Sweden ( SKP) (now Vänsterpartiet ) and from 1933 to 1964 deputy in the Reichstag.
Life
As a young mine workers in the iron ore mines of Malmberget Hagberg was a member of the Communist Party of Sweden. Between 1930 and 1935 he was a staff member and editor of the daily newspaper Norrskensflamman, a regional communist party newspaper for the province of Norrbotten and 1943-1964 senior staff member of the main party newspaper Ny Dag. In 1930 he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SKP, which he remained until 1964. From 1933-64 Hagberg was a member of the Second Chamber of the Swedish Parliament.
As party chairman Hagberg pursued a pro-Soviet course. He supported the 1956 crushing of the Hungarian uprising and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Following year, the SKP clearly lost the Swedish local elections. In the party was seen as a reason for the defeat to close alignment with the Soviet Union. Consequently, Hagberg was replaced as party leader in 1964 by Carl -Henrik Hermansson, the SKP changed program and statutes, named itself in Vänsterpartiet communist nutrition ( Left Party - Communists ) to and pursued in the subsequent period a moscow critical and Euro -communist course.
Together with a large part of the pro-Soviet left wing Hagberg 1977, the Party and participated in the founding of the Workers' Communist Party ( APK ) part.
Hagberg died on 17 December 1993 in Luleå. Posthumously, his memoirs in 1995 " Jag är och communist förblir " under the title ("I am and remain a Communist " ) published.
Writings
- Marshall Plan, västblocket och sverge, Stockholm 1948
- Röd bok om svart tid, Staffanstorp 1966
- I Marx- Lenin anda. , Staffanstorp / Solna 1968
- Socialismen i Tides, Gothenburg 1980
- Jag är och förblir communist, 1995 ( posthumously )