Viktor Herou

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Viktor Herou

Johan Viktor Herou (17 February 1889, in Österfärnebo – 21 February 1970) was a Swedish politician from Österfärnebo. Herou dedicated a large part of his political career to the upliftment of the small peasantry.[1]

Herou was the son of agricultural labourers and toiled as a forest worker during his youth. Herou was a delegate at the 1914 congress of the

Soviet Russia.[1] He was elected to parliament in the 1921 election, being one of seven deputies of the first Communist Party parliamentary faction.[2]

He was again elected to parliament in 1928, 1932 and 1936.[3] When the Communist Party was divided in October 1929, Herou sided with the dissident Communist Party (later renamed Socialist Party) led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg.[1] When the Socialist Party parliamentary group was divided over a parliamentary motion on the Spanish Civil War (a debate in which the majority of the parliamentarians with Kilbom at their helm implied that Flyg had adopted a too ambivalent position towards the defense of the Spanish Republic), Herou took a neutralist position. Albeit not explicitly supporting Flyg's line, Herou positioned himself closer to Flyg than Kilbom's group.[4]

In 1940 Herou broke with the Socialist Party and joined the Farmers' League (later renamed as the Centre Party).[5] Herou became a prominent local politician in Österfärnebo, being active in municipal politics until 1952.[1] In 1964 he became the interim chairman of the newly founded Österfärnebo branch of the Swedish National Pensioners' Organisation (PRO).[6]

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