Carl Lindhagen

Carl Albert Lindhagen (17 December 1860[1] – 11 March 1946) was a Swedish lawyer, politician, and pacifist.

Carl Lindhagen was the chief magistrate (borgmästare) of Stockholm 1903–1930 (i.e. a legal position, not mayor).

[citation needed] He started his political career in the Liberal party, which in the time before democracy was considered a radical movement.

The Hammarskjöld suggestion aroused anger among women's rights activists, who formed a support group for the Lindhagen motion.

The Swedish Socialists took Lenin to the PUB department store where they bought him a brand new suit so he would look good and clean coming back home to revolutionary Petrograd.

Carl Lindhagen originally supported Lenin and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, but he was also a pacifist and disagreed with some aspects of Communism.

Carl Lindhagen
Lenin, Ture Nerman and Carl Lindhagen in Stockholm April 1917.
Carl Lindhagen holding his May Day sign saying: Alla folks frihet – Hela världens fred – avrustning överallt . (All people's freedom – World peace – Disarmament everywhere.)