Lars Werner

Lars Helge Werner ( born July 25, 1935 in Stockholm; † 11 January 2013) was a Swedish politician of the Vänsterpartiet ( Left Party ). From 1975 to 1993 he was chairman of the party and from 1965 to 1994 Member of the Swedish Parliament.

Life

Werner was born the son of the communist trade union and party functionary Hjalmar Werner. His father belonged temporarily to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Sweden ( SKP). Even as a nine year old was Lars Werner to the communist youth organization " Young Eagles ", In 1953 he became a member of SKP.

1951, Werner from the German secondary school certificate corresponding real exam and learned the mason trade. In the following years he qualified through evening courses in civil engineering and also worked as a union official. From 1965, he was a deputy for the SKP in the then still existing First Chamber of the Swedish Parliament, from 1970 the unicameral. He supported the course Carl -Henrik Hermanssons, the increasingly brought the party since the mid-60s at a distance with the Soviet Union and struck a Euro -communist direction.

1975 sparked Werner Hermansson as chairman of the now Vänsterpartiet Communist Erna ( VPK ) nominal party from. Although he tried to find a balance between the various party wings and also a cooperation with the communist parties of the Soviet bloc, in 1977 the Moscow-backed wing of the party split as Communist Workers Party ( APK ) from.

After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1990 under his party chairmanship renamed Vänsterpartiet. The party was now a more left-wing socialist orientation waiving the word " communist " in the party name. In recent years, as chairman Werner was party internally criticized harshly for severe alcohol problems, he was replaced as party leader Gudrun Schyman of 1993.