Walther Bringolf

Walther Bringolf

Walther Bringolf (1 August 1895 – 24 March 1981) was a former President of the National Council of Switzerland (1961/1962).^[1] He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland^[2] and was a long-time mayor of Schaffhausen (1933–1968).^[3]

Communist activities[]

A group of members of the International Bureau of Proletkult. Sitting (left to right): War Van Overstraeten, P. Lebedev-Polyansky (secretary). Anatoly Lunacharsky (chairman), Nicola Bombacci, Wilhelm Herzog, Standing Walther Bringolf, Jules Humbert-Droz

Bringolf sympathised with the Russian Revolution and attended the Second Congress of the Third International. Whilst there he attended the Kultintern conference and joined their Provisional International Bureau.

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External links[]

Walther Bringolf in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
Biography of Walther Bringolf on the website of the Swiss Parliament.

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[1] Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (German)

[2] Secret Channel to Berlin by Pierre-Th Braunschweig, pgs 8, 11-14

[3] Why Switzerland? by Jonathan Steinberg, pg 60

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