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Aksel Larsen
Leader of the Socialist People's Party
In office 1959–1968
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Sigurd Ømann
Leader of the Communist Party of Denmark
In office 1932–1958
Preceded by
Thøger Thøgersen
Succeeded by
Knud Jespersen
Member of Folketinget
In office 1932–1941
In office 1945–1972
Minister without Portfolio
In office 5 May 1945 – 7 November 1945
Prime Minister
Vilhelm Buhl
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Personal details
Born
(1897-08-05)5 August 1897 Brændekilde, Odense Municipality, Denmark
Died
10 January 1972(1972-01-10) (aged 74)
Resting place
Fredens Kirkegård, Odense, Denmark
Political party
Socialist People's Party
Other political affiliations
Communist Party of Denmark, Social Democrats, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Spouse
Gerda Larsen
Alma mater
International Lenin School
Aksel Larsen (5 August 1897 – 10 January 1972) was a Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), and chairman and founder of the Socialist People's Party. He is remembered today for his long service in the Communist Party of Denmark, for his time as a concentration camp inmate at Sachsenhausen, and for being the founder of the Socialist People's Party.
Initially a Social Democrat and then a Trotskyist, Larsen came to support Stalinism, and defended the Soviet Union's policies during the early and middle parts of his career. He became leader of the Communist Party in 1932, and was elected to Folketinget (the lower chamber of Danish parliament Rigsdagen) in 1932. Together with other Danish communists, Larsen had to go into hiding in 1941 when the Danish police began arresting all party members. After the liberation at the end of World War II, Larsen became a minister in the liberation cabinet and subsequently led his party to its best-ever result in the 1945 election, in which it took one in eight votes. The election, however, resulted in a Liberal government, and Larsen's party was mostly shunned by the other party leaders.
After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Larsen condemned the Soviet Union's action. This led him into conflict with the members of the party leadership who had a greater loyalty to Moscow; a conflict that ended with his expulsion in November 1958.[1] Larsen's reaction was to establish the Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti, abbreviated SF), which, thanks to Larsen's personal popularity, entered parliament at the 1960 election at the expense of the Communists, who from then on played only a very peripheral role in Danish politics.
Larsen himself was highly respected among politicians, especially in his later years, even if his party was seen as somewhat irresponsible. He was the leader of the Socialists until 1968 when he handed this over to Sigurd Ømann, and he remained an MP until his death in 1972.
In 2005, the Danish Institute for International Studies concluded that Larsen held a secret working relationship between 1958 and 1964 with one of Denmark's allied partners in the Cold War, stating that "Larsen... obviously was an agent of a Western intelligence service."[2]
^"Danish Reds Expel Leader from Party". The New York Times. November 16, 1958.
^"Denmark During the Cold War: Highlights of the DIIS report" (PDF). Danish Institute for International Studies. June 30, 2005. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
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