Fatherland League (Norway)

Fatherland League
Fedrelandslaget
ChairmanJoakim Lehmkuhl (1925–38)
Victor Mogens (1938–40)
Founded25 January 1925
Banned25 September 1940
NewspaperNorges Fremtid (1927–32)
ABC (1932–40)
Membership100,000 (1930)[1]
IdeologyConservatism[2][3]
National conservatism[4]
Anti-communism[2][3]
Norwegian nationalism[2][3]
Corporatism[2][3]
Political positionRight-wing
ColorsRed, white, blue (flag of Norway)

The Fatherland League (Norwegian: Fedrelandslaget) was a Norwegian right-wing, anti-communist and nationalist political organisation in the interwar period. Founded in 1925, the movement aimed to unite all centre-to-right forces against the rise of the revolutionary Marxist labour movement. At its peak of popular support and political influence around 1930 it was the single largest mass movement ever organised on the political right in Norway, with an estimated 100,000 members.[1] The movement began to decline through the 1930s, followed by some unsuccessful attempts to gain direct influence as a political party. The Fatherland League was banned and dissolved after the German occupation of Norway in 1940.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference snl was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d Blinkhorn, Martin (2003). Fascists and Conservatives: The Radical Right and the Establishment in Twentieth-Century Europe. Routledge. pp. 253–254. ISBN 9781134997121.
  3. ^ a b c d Salvatore Garau (2015). Fascism and Ideology: Italy, Britain, and Norway. Routledge. pp. 215–224. ISBN 9781317909460.
  4. ^ Sjølyst-Jackson, Peter (2010). Troubling Legacies: Migration, Modernism and Fascism in the Case of Knut Hamsun. Bloomsbury Academic.

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