Einar Åberg
Einar Gustaf Vilhelm Åberg (born April 20, 1890 in Gothenburg ; died October 6, 1970 in Norrviken , Sollentuna municipality ) was a Swedish right-wing political activist and anti-Semite.
Life
Einar Åberg worked as a journalist and bookseller. According to his own account, reading the book Protocols of the Elders of Zion in 1922 made him an anti-Semite. He began to write, print and distribute leaflets and pamphlets with anti-Semitic content. Between 1931 and 1935 he published together with Carl-Ernfrid Carlsberg , 1934/35, he wrote in the magazine nations of Elof Eriksson . He was active in various right-wing extremist groups without becoming a member and had broad international contacts with fascists and anti-Semites.
Since 1941 he ran a bookstore for anti-Semitic and National Socialist literature in Stockholm. In November 1941 he founded the Sveriges antijudiska kampförbund ( Antijudischer Kampfbund).
Åberg has been fined many times in Sweden for anti-Semitic agitation. In 1956, a law against racial hatred was passed in Sweden and Åberg was the first to be sentenced to three months in prison under that law. He is therefore venerated as a martyr among his followers, who founded Einar Åbergs Minnesfond (Remembrance Fund) in 1990.
Fonts (selection)
- Facta bakom åtalen och domarna mot Einar Åberg 1946–1956 . Uddevalla: Einar Åberg, 1956
literature
- Heléne Lööw : Åberg, Einar , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 1 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Einar Åberg in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Åberg, Einar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Åberg, Einar Gustaf Vilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish political activist and anti-Semite |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1970 |
| Place of death | Sollentuna |