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. Related to the Civil War of Finland in 1918, he wrote a book translated in 1925 in Finnish as: Oikeudenkäyttö Suomessa, Muutamia asiakirjoja selityksineen. He competed for Sweden in fencing at 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 Olympedia
- Georg Branting at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
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