Olav Scheflo
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Olav Andreas Scheflo (9 September 1883 – 25 June 1943) was a Norwegian
Party activities
Scheflo was a member of the
When Sweden's Communist leader, Zeth Höglund was offered to be made honorable corporal in the Red Army in 1918 but declined, the offer instead went to Scheflo, who gladly accepted the position.
When
Scheflo's autobiography is Den røde tråd i Norges historie (The Red Thread in Norwegian History).
After the split in the party
With the party split of 1923, he sided with the Norwegian Communist Party (NKP) in which he was voted into party leadership as a Comintern representative (until 1927) and editor of the main organ of the party, Norges Kommunistblad. In 1924 he was sent to prison for publishing a statement against strikebreaking during the great Iron strike (a series of labor conflicts from 1923–24). That same year, he was condemned for “encouragement of punishable deeds” after having agitated for a military strike.
Politically, Scheflo was relatively moderate and was counted among the right wing in the NKP. The conflict within the party led to his resignation as editor of the main organ in 1927.
In March 1928 Scheflo left the NKP in protest against the party’s negative attitude towards the Hornsrud government. From 1929 he was a member of the Norwegian Labor Party and from 1931 he was the editor of the party newspaper Sørlandet in Kristiansand.
References
- ^ "Olav Scheflo – Norsk biografisk leksikon" [Olav Schlefo - Norwegian Biographical Dictionary] (in Norwegian).
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