Georg Branting
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| Member of the Riksdag | |
| In office 1932–1961 | |
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| Born | 21 September 1887 |
| Died | 6 July 1965 (aged 77) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Resting place | Adolf Fredrik Cemetery |
| Party | Swedish Social Democratic Party |
| Parent(s) | Hjalmar Branting Anna Branting |
Georg Branting (21 September 1887 – 6 July 1965) was a Swedish Social Democrat[1] and Olympic fencer.[2] He was the son of Hjalmar Branting and Anna Branting, and a member of the Riksdag 1932–1961.[3]
In the Spanish Civil War, a Scandinavian battalion of the International Brigades was named after him, as a sign of thanks for his vehement support of the Spanish Republic. He wrote a book on the Finnish Civil War called "Rättvisan i Finland" (Justice in Finland) which was published in Swedish in 1924 and later translated into Finnish and published in Helsinki in 1925. He competed for Sweden in the sport of fencing at both the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden (Google eBook) Klaus Misgeld, Karl Molin. Penn State Press, 1 November 2010
- ↑ "Georg Branting Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
- ↑ "Branting, Georg (1887 - 1965)". The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources since 1945. (Google eBook) Chris Cook. Routledge, 10 September 2012
- ↑ "Georg Branting". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- Georg Branting at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- Georg Branting at Olympedia
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