Aksel Larsen (August 5, 1897 – January 10, 1972) was a Danish politician who was born in Brændekilde, near Odense. Larsen became leader of the Danish Communist Party in 1932, and was elected to the Danish Parliament 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 in 1945 Larsen served as a minister in the interim government, and subsequently led his party to its best-ever result in the October 1945 election, in which it took 10% of the vote. The election, however, brought a Liberal government into office, and Larsen's party was mostly shunned by the other party leaders.

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  • Aksel Larsen (August 5, 1897 – January 10, 1972) was a Danish politician who was born in Brændekilde, near Odense. Larsen became leader of the Danish Communist Party in 1932, and was elected to the Danish Parliament 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 in 1945 Larsen served as a minister in the interim government, and subsequently led his party to its best-ever result in the October 1945 election, in which it took 10% of the vote. The election, however, brought a Liberal government into office, and Larsen's party was mostly shunned by the other party leaders. Following the rising in Hungary in 1956, Larsen condemned the Soviet Union's action. This led him into conflict with the members of the party leadership who were more loyal to Moscow; a conflict that ended with his being expelled in November 1958. Larsen's reaction was to form the Socialist People's Party, 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. Aksel Larsen, who was especially in later years highly respected among politicians, even if his party was seen as somewhat irresponsible, remained as leader of the Socialists until 1968, when he handed over to Sigurd Ømann. He remained an MP until his death in 1972. The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), concluded in 2005, 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." (en)
  • Aksel Larsen (5. august 1897 – 10. januar 1972) var en dansk politiker, oprindeligt socialdemokrat, blev kommunist i 1920, siden stifter af Socialistisk Folkeparti i 1958. Aksel Larsen blev født i 1897 som søn af træskomager Lars Larsen og Ehrengott Larsen. Han voksede op i Brændekilde, en forstad til Odense, i en børneflok på 9. Han var det eneste af børnene, der fik en realeksamen. Måneden efter, at han havde fået sin realeksamen, startede han som elev ved de Sydfyenske Jernbaner, hvor han efter endt uddannelse blev ansat som trafikassistent i april 1917 ved Årslev Station. Han opgav imidlertid denne uddannelse og flyttede i maj 1918 til København. Han flyttede ind på et lille kvistværelse på Istedgade. Han tjente sine penge som cykelbud og meldte sig ind i Socialdemokratiet. Aksel Larsen deltog i de voldsomme demonstrationer på Grønttorvet i november 1918. Han optrådte som folketaler i 1920 under Påskekrisen og blev efterhånden mere radikal i sine synspunkter. Imidlertid indgik Socialdemokraterne og De Samvirkende Fagforbund forlig, og så blev det for meget for Aksel Larsen. Han meldte sig ud af partiet og meldte sig straks ind i det nystiftede Venstresocialistisk parti (som siden skiftede navn til Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti, DKP). 9. oktober 1931 holdt Aksel Larsen sin berømte 'robådstale' fra robåden Rosa i Frederiksholms Kanal. Talen var rettet til en gruppe kommunistiske demonstranter. Ved Folketingsvalget i november 1932 blev Aksel Larsen valgt og blev senere samme år formand for partiet til trods for modstand fra Komintern. Under besættelsen blev han, da Tyskland invaderede Sovjetunionen, efterlyst af Gestapo. 5. november 1942 blev han fanget og overført til den tyske afdeling i Vestre Fængsel, hvor han blev afhørt i 17 timer - forhørsprotokollen fylder 83 sider. Hvor lidt eller hvor meget, Larsen fortalte, er uklart. Larsen blev 28. august 1943 overført til særfængsel i koncentrationslejren Sachsenhausen. I april 1945 kom han med De Hvide Busser til Sverige, og vendte hjem til Danmark 5. maj om morgenen. Efter opstanden i Ungarn i 1956 blev han og andre ledende kommunister ekskluderet 16. november 1958 efter at have rejst kritik af kommunismen og Sovjetunionen. Det blev til Socialistisk Folkeparti. 24. november 1958 anmeldte han SF i Folketinget og 15. februar 1959 holdt partiet stiftende kongres. Grundlaget skulle være en dansk, demokratisk socialisme. Ved det følgende folketingsvalg blev SF valgt ind med 11 mandater og Kommunisterne røg ud. Aksel Larsen døde 10. januar 1972. 30. juni 2005 afsløredes det i en rapport om Danmark under den kolde krig udgivet af Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, at Aksel Larsen i perioden fra november 1958 til maj 1964 holdt en række møder med repræsentanter for vestlige, allierede myndigheder. (da)
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  • 1959 – 1968 (en)
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  • Aksel Larsen (August 5, 1897 – January 10, 1972) was a Danish politician who was born in Brændekilde, near Odense. Larsen became leader of the Danish Communist Party in 1932, and was elected to the Danish Parliament 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 in 1945 Larsen served as a minister in the interim government, and subsequently led his party to its best-ever result in the October 1945 election, in which it took 10% of the vote. The election, however, brought a Liberal government into office, and Larsen's party was mostly shunned by the other party leaders. (en)
  • Aksel Larsen (5. august 1897 – 10. (da)
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  • Aksel Larsen (en)
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