Konrad Hallgren

Konrad Hallgren in the 1920s. The propaganda poster on the wall reads "death to communism" in Swedish.

Konrad Otto Kristian Hallgren (9 April 1891, in Landskrona – 8 August 1962, in Stockholm) was a Swedish party chairman in Sweden's first fascist organization, Sveriges Fascistiska Kamporganisation (SFKO, "Sweden's Fascist Combat-Organization").[1][2]

Hallgren served in the German army during World War I.[3] He claimed to have been in the White Russian army of General Pyotr Wrangel during the Russian Civil War, but his war record has been contested.[3]

At first the SFKO was a fascist organization but more and more turned ideologically to Nazism[4] and changed its name into Fascist People's Party of Sweden and then Sveriges Nationalsocialistiska Folkparti (SNFP, "Sweden's National Socialist People's Party"). Other members of SFKO/SNFP was the Swedish army officer Sven Hedengren and the infamous Swedish national socialist-leader and army corporal Sven-Olov Lindholm (who would later lead his own national socialist party which would become the biggest of the national socialist groups in Sweden during the 1930s–1940s).[5]

Hallgren told in 1931 about the Munckska kårens existence for the police and also about the weapons that the organization had gathered. Munckska Kåren was a group of anti-communist right wing extremists who feared a "bolshevist takeover" in Sweden and which had members from, among others, SFKO, and some officers from the Swedish army, and had secretly been stashing weapons illegally.[6][7] He later became an archivist working in Stockholm.

  1. ^ Sveriges dödbok 1901–2013 (DVD-rom) Sveriges släktforskarförbund ISBN 91-87676-64-8
  2. ^ "Polisrapport om Munckska frikåren 1932". Archived from the original on 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  3. ^ a b Kunkeler, Nathaniël D. B. (2023). "Finland and Military Volunteers in the Swedish Fascist Imaginary, 1809–1944". The Historical Journal. 66 (4): 795–817. doi:10.1017/S0018246X23000183. hdl:10852/109657. ISSN 0018-246X.
  4. ^ Nazismens och fascismens idéer, Herbert Tingsten, 1965
  5. ^ Nazismens och fascismens idéer, Herbert Tingsten, 1965
  6. ^ Nazismens och fascismens idéer, Herbert Tingsten, 1965
  7. ^ "Bror O C Munck - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.