Otto Grimlund

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

Life

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

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

Grimlund tombstone, Skogskyrkogården (Stockholm 2006)

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

After the successful October Revolution (1917) in Russia, Grimlund worked in Moscow as an editor for the newspaper “Messenger of the Russian Revolution” . In the 1930s, however, he left the Soviet Union and went back to Sweden.

Grimlund rejoined the Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party in 1930. His grave can be found today in Stockholm, Sweden.

Works

  • Wladimir Uljanoff Lenin , Socialdemokratisk Ungdomsforbunds Forlag, 1919.
  • "Mannerheim den bloodige" eller "Den vite djävulen"? , Fram., 1919.

literature

  • Grimlund, Otto (Red.): Messenger of the Russian Revolution . Organ of the foreign representation of the Central Committee of the Soc. The Workers' Party of Russia (Bolsheviks). Volume 1, 1917, Issues 1–6 and 8–11, Stockholm, 1917, No. 8.

Web links

Commons : Otto Grimlund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Weber: Der deutsche Kommunismus , p. 26.
  2. ↑ Braunthal: History of the International , Volume 2, p. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Grimlund, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimlund, Otto Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish journalist and communist politician (Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti)
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1893
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 1969
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden