Nils Flyg

Nils Flyg

Nils Svante Flyg (born June 9, 1891 in Stockholm , † January 9, 1943 in Nacka ) was a Swedish politician, member of the Second Chamber of the Swedish Reichstag from 1929 to 1940, chairman of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP, today Vänsterpartiet ) from 1924 until 1929, then co-founder and chairman of the Socialistiska partiet (Socialist Party) until his death.

Life

Flyg, who was a trained printer, was a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth Association as a teenager . In 1917 he joined the Sverges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti , a left-wing split of the Social Democrats led by Karl Kilbom , which later renamed itself the Sveriges kommunistiska parti (Communist Party of Sweden).

In 1921 and 1924 the party split, as a result of which Flyg rose to become party leader. At this point in time, the SKP was financially dependent on the Comintern and was accordingly heavily influenced.

After the Comintern swung to the left in 1929, the group around Flyg and Kilbom broke with it, the party split into two wings, both of which initially referred to themselves as the “Communist Party of Sweden”, later Flyg's party was renamed “Socialistiska partiet”.

The SP, led by Flyg, became part of the IVKO , later the London office . At first it was quite successful in adopting a left-wing socialist position that was independent of Moscow.

The growing rejection of the policies of the Soviet Union and the Comintern, especially Stalin , led, however, after the German Reich's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, to a growing tendency for Flygs and his party to lean towards Nazi Germany , which provided funding for the party and its newspaper "Folkets Dagblad" secured.

The change of the SP from a communist to a Nazi party was not supported by members and voters, so that after Flyg's death in 1943 the party became a meaningless splinter group.

literature

• Håkan Blomqvist: Gåtan Nils Flyg och nazismen. Carlsson Verlag, Stockholm 1999.
• Stig Ekman, Klas Åmark (Ed.): Sweden's relations with Nazism, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 2003.