Elof Eriksson

[2] Eriksson began his political career in 1914 in the agrarian movements connected to the Jordbrukarnas Riksförbund (Farmers National Federation), leading a highly reactionary faction that was suspicious of democracy and was supportive of eugenics.

[2] He left active politics when the group as a whole merged with the Centre Party and became a writer and publisher, taking over the editing of the highly conservative Södertälje Tidning in 1923.

[3] Eriksson was fired in 1925 for his extremist views and set up his own paper, the Nationen, which became the main outlet for his increasingly hard-line beliefs.

[3] Nonetheless he was in contact with individual Nazis, notably Erich Ludendorff and later Julius Streicher, with whom he shared a pathological hatred of the Jews.

Nonetheless he was close to the Carlberg Foundation and had contact with like-minded groups in Europe and North America, being active until his death in 1965.