Ture Nerman
Ture Nerman (born May 18, 1886 in Norrköping , † October 7, 1969 ) was a Swedish communist , journalist and author. He was one of the most famous political activists of his time. Nerman sat in the Reichstag from 1930 to 1937 and from 1946 to 1953 . He also wrote poems and songs.
Nerman was a vegetarian and strict alcoholist. Alcoholism was one of the biggest problems in Sweden in its day, and Nerman saw alcohol as a drug that made the working class passive so that they no longer fought for better conditions.
Ture Nerman had two brothers, the artist Einar Nerman and the archaeologist Birger Nerman .
Nerman was politically radical and changed his party affiliation between the Social Democrats and the Communists. When the First World War broke out in 1914 , Nerman joined an international socialist group that fought against the war. In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Swedish communist movement together with Zeth Höglund and in April of that year he received the Russian Bolshevik leaders Lenin and Zinoviev as they were passing through Stockholm. He himself traveled three times to the Soviet Union , in 1918 with Anton Nilson , in 1920 and 1927, and met many Bolshevik leaders there such as Leon Trotsky , Zinoviev , Kamenev , Bukharin , Alexandra Kollontai and Karl Radek . Nerman supported Lenin and the Russian October Revolution , but rejected Stalinism and further developments in the Soviet Union.
During the Second World War he published the strong, anti-Nazi newspaper Trots allt! out. The name of the newspaper can be found on Karl Liebknecht's text Despite everything! ajar.
Nerman's worldview changed at crucial points towards the end of his life. He now advocated Swedish membership of NATO and expressed sympathy for South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ture Nerman in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nerman, Ture |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag, journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norrkoping |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th October 1969 |