Nils Holmberg

Who was Nils Holmberg?

Nils Gösta Holmberg was a communist leader in Sweden. Holmberg was born on December 23, 1902 in Stockholm. Holmberg was a member of the Young Communist League of Sweden. From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the executive committee of SKU. Later on, the became a leading member of the mother party, the Communist Party of Sweden. In 1933 he was inducted into the Central Committee of the party, a position he held until 1956.

From 1933 to 1958 he was a member of the board of the Communist Arbetarkommun of Göteborg and a member of the municipal council of the city from 1935 to 1944. He was also the editor of the daily newspaper of the party in Göteborg, Arbetar-Tidningen. During the Second World War the government imposed a ban on transporting the publication. The newspaper was confiscated 34 times by the police, and thrice did the confiscations lead to charges against it. Twice did the court sentence the responsible publisher to imprisonment. However, Holmberg was not jailed as the newspaper had officially registered an individual party member as the publisher of the newspaper.