- Hinke Bergegren
Henrik "Hinke" Bergegren (1861 – 1936) was a Swedish
Social Democratic politician.Bergegren was an early member of the newly founded
Swedish Social Democratic Party and he represented a revolutionary tendency, best described asAnarcho-syndicalism and wrote articles for Brand. Because of his anarchistic standpoints, Bergegren was later expelled from the Social Democratic Party by its leaderHjalmar Branting .Hinke Bergegren is mostly known for being an early agitator of "
free love ". In 1910 he held the speech "Kärlek utan barn" (Love without Children) in which he advocated for the legalization of birth control in Sweden. For this he was taken to court and received a short prison sentence under a newly adopted law known as Lex Hinke (named after Bergegren), which made it illegal to advocate birth control.In 1921, Hinke Bergegren joined the Swedish Communist Party, and the same year, Bergegren went to
Moscow for the third congress of theCommunist International to represent Sweden together withZeth Höglund andFredrik Ström .Bergegren remained a communist for the rest of his life.
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