Hjalmar Branting

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Hjalmar Branting
Hjalmar Branting; Portrait of Richard Bergh

Karl Hjalmar Branting (born November 23, 1860 in Stockholm ; † February 24, 1925 there ) was a Swedish politician , member of the Reichstag and several times Prime Minister for short-term governments from 1920 to 1925.

Life

Hjalmar Branting came from an upper-class family in Stockholm. Already during his high school days Branting came into contact with Marxist - socialist ideas and turned to social democracy . 1878-82 he studied science in Uppsala without completing the studies. In 1884 Branting married Anna Jäderin .

In the following time he began to be active in journalism and politics. After his first journalistic activity at the radical newspaper Tiden (Die Zeit), he switched to the newspaper Socialdemokrats , founded by August Palm in 1886 , of which he was editor-in-chief from 1887 to 1917 with a few interruptions. In 1889 he was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party , from 1894 until his death he was a member of the party executive and from 1908 party chairman.

Hjalmar Branting was elected to the Reichstag in 1897 as the first social democrat, and he was a member of the Reichstag until his death. In 1917 Branting was finance minister in a liberal-social democratic coalition government for a few months. On March 10, 1920, Branting formed the first social democratic government in Sweden , but it resigned on October 27 of the same year. From October 1921 to April 1923 Branting was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of another Social Democratic government and in October 1924 he formed his third government. In 1921, Branting, along with other leading politicians such as the conservative opposition leader Arvid Lindman, signed a bill for the establishment of the State Institute for Racial Biology in 1922.

Hjalmar Branting is considered one of the most important Swedish politicians of the 20th century. On the one hand, he succeeded in peacefully resolving the deep social conflict at the turn of the century through skillful parliamentary cooperation for democracy and social and economic reforms. On the other hand, he and his governments laid the foundation for the power position of Swedish social democracy.

Karl Hjalmar Branting and Hungarian delegates to the Stockholm Peace Conference of 1917

In terms of foreign policy, Hjalmar Branting campaigned for peace such as B. in the unsuccessful Stockholm Conference in 1917 . He was a Swedish delegate at the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919 and in the Federal Assembly of the League of Nations from its founding in 1920 until his death. In 1921 he received the Nobel Peace Prize together with the Norwegian Christian Lous Lange . In 1951, Brantinggasse in Vienna - Favoriten was named after him because Branting had rendered outstanding services to the needy population of Austria after the First World War.

Hjalmar Branting died on February 24, 1925 at the age of 65.

Monument in honor of Hjalmar Branting in Stockholm

Works

  • Work classes och världsläget . Tidens Förl., Stockholm 1915.
  • Socialism . Bonnier, Stockholm 1892.

literature

  • Sven Backlund: Hjalmar Branting . Bonnier, Stockholm 1920.
  • Jan Peters: Branting and the Swedish social democracy. Hjalmar and Georg Branting in Swedish History . Verlag der Wissenschaft, Berlin 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl N Alvar Nilsson: KRIS I FOLKHEMMET. Svensk politisk historia 1900 - 2011 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) p. 12. (PDF; 1.5 MB).
  2. ^ Benny Jacobsson: Nytt ljus över rasbiologin ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Branting, Hjalmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Branting, Karl Hjalmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish politician, member of the Reichstag and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1925
Place of death Stockholm