Otto Grimlund

Otto Grimlund (full name: Otto Bernhard Grimlund; * December 30, 1893, † September 15, 1969 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish journalist and communist politician.

Life

Grimlund was originally a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden (Swedish Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ). But in 1917 he was one of the members who seceded as Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden (Swedish Sveriges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti ). 1919 you sent him as a representative of Sweden to the founding of the Communist International ( Comintern short or Third International ) to Moscow.

On March 6, 1919, he signed in Moscow as a representative of Sweden, the " Manifesto of the Communist International ." Next to him was signed, among others, as agent for Germany: Max Albert ( pseudonym of Hugo Eberlein ), for Russia: Lenin (pseudonym of Vladimir Ulyanov ), for German - Austria: K. Gruber (pseudonym of Charles Steinhardt ), Switzerland: Fritz Platten, of the United States of North America: B. Reinstein, Finland: Yrjö Sirola, Poland: Josef Unschlicht of Latvia: K. Gailis and as representatives of the Volga German colonists: Gustav Klinger.

Together with the Swiss communist Fritz Platten Grimlund was the main organizer of the return of Lenin from exile in Switzerland back to Russia.

After the successful October Revolution in Russia in 1917 Grimlund in Moscow, working as an editor for the newspaper "messenger of the Russian Revolution." But in the 1930s, he left the Soviet Union and went back to Sweden.

Grimlund occurred again in 1930 into the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden. His grave can be found today in Stockholm in Sweden.

Works

• Vladimir Lenin Uljanoff, Socialdemokratisk Ungdomsforbunds Forlag, 1919.
• " Mannerheim the blodige " eller "Den vite djävulen "? , Fram. , 1919.