Count
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Torgil Gabriel Alexander von Seth (3 October 1895 in
Jönköping
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The city is the seat o ...
– 21 January 1989 in
Vaggeryd
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) was a
Swedish right-wing
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politician and the first chairman of what later became the
Moderate Youth League
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.
The early 1930s saw conflict within the Swedish right wing over how to address
nazism
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. In 1934,
Arvid Lindman
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, the leader of the
Moderate Party
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, declared that the
National Youth League of Sweden (''Sveriges nationella ungdomsförbund'', SNU) no longer was considered the official youth organisation of the Swedish right due to its pro-Nazi stance. Torgil von Seth, one of the leaders of the democratic wing of SNU, quickly organised a committee to set up a new youth organisation. It was named the Young Swedes (''Ungsvenskarna'') and von Seth became its first chairman. He served until 1941, a period which among other things saw the Young Swedes involving itself in the nationwide efforts to help
Finland
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after having been invaded by the
Soviet Union
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.
He was honorary guest at the congress of the Moderate Youth League when
Beatrice Ask
Eva Carin Beatrice Ask (born 20 April 1956) is a Swedish politician and a member of the Moderate Party. She served as Governor of Södermanland County from 1 January 2020 to 31 March 2025.
Ask served as a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Sto ...
was elected in 1984.
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Moderate Party politicians
1895 births
1989 deaths
People from Jönköping
Swedish politicians