Lars Werner
SKP
Lars Werner during a July 1974 visit to East Berlin
Leader of the Left Party Communists
In office
13 March 1975 – 7 January 1993
Preceded byC.-H. Hermansson
Succeeded byGudrun Schyman
Member of the Swedish Parliament
for Stockholm Municipality
In office
1965–1994
Personal details
Born(1935-07-25)25 July 1935
Stockholm, Sweden
Died11 January 2013(2013-01-11) (aged 77)
Tyresö, Sweden
Political partyLeft Party Communists
ProfessionConstruction worker
Lars Werner (right) with Erich Honecker, 1974

Lars Helge Werner (25 July 1935 – 11 January 2013) was a Swedish socialist politician.[1][2]

Werner was born in Stockholm. He was a member of the Riksdag from 1965 to 1994.[2][3] A construction worker by profession, he was elected vice chairman of the Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna (VPK) ("the Left Party - Communists") in 1967, and became party chairman in 1975. During his time as party leader, he worked to distance the party from the Soviet Union, a process that had been started by his predecessor as party leader, C.-H. Hermansson. In 1990, VPK changed its name to Vänsterpartiet ("the Left Party"), removing the term "Communists". Werner resigned as party leader in 1993, and was succeeded by Gudrun Schyman.[1]

Werner died from a heart condition in 2013, at the age of 77.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lars Werner är död". Dagens Nyheter. 12 January 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Lars Werner". www.ne.se (in Swedish). Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Lars Werner" (in Swedish). Riksdag. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
Preceded byC.-H. Hermansson Leader of the Swedish Left Party - Communists 1975—1993 Succeeded byGudrun Schyman


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