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Jan 20, 1872 Died on 04 Jan 1938 (aged 65)

Swedish politician

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About Fabian Månsson

  • Karl Fabian Månsson (1872–1938) was a Swedish politician.
  • In his youth, Månsson used the pseudonym Dacke, a name he borrowed from the 16th century peasant rebel Nils Dacke.
  • Fabian Månsson was born in a poor family in Hasslö, an island in the Blekinge archipelago.
  • His father was a fisherman.
  • Fabian Månsson worked as a navvy and became active as a radical in the Social Democratic Party, for which he also worked as an agitator, a journalist and a poet.
  • In 1912 he was elected to the lower house of the Riksdag to where he was reelected until his death.
  • When the Social Democratic Party was split in 1917, Månsson who always opposed centralistic rule joined the radical, revolutionary group which formed the Social Democratic Left Party.
  • However, Månsson opposed communism and left the new party when its leader, Zeth Höglund, moved the party into joining the Communist International.
  • Fabian Månsson decided to rejoin the Social Democratic Party, but continued to scrutinize it from a radical angle.
  • Månsson wrote several historical works, including a three-volume work on Nils Dacke.
  • He was made honorary Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Uppsala in 1932.
  • His younger comrade Fredrik Ström wrote a biography about him, simply called Fabian (1948).
  • Today there is a statue of Fabian Månsson erected at his birthplace of Hasslö, and a bust outside Stockholm City Library.

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