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Anders Lange (5 September 1904 - 18 October 1974) was the founder of the Norwegian political party Anders Lange's Party (the predecessor to the current Progress Party). He was a charismatic right-wing public speaker who objected to high taxes, state-regulations and public bureaucracy.
Background, education and work
Anders Lange's family originated in Langenburg, Germany and later moved to Norway. Lange claimed to be closely related to the family Trygve and Brynjulf Bull of in Oslo as well as the famous author Jens Bjørneboe whom he despised.{citation needed|date=November 2009}}
Lange was the son of the doctor Alf Lange and Anne Elisabeth Svensson. He was graduated as a forestry technician at Oddernes forestry school in 1926 and worked as a plant nursery manager in Argentina the following year.
1929-1945
Lange began his political career as secretary of the Norwegian coalition-organization Fedrelandslaget (Fatherland League), a position he held from 1929 to 1938.
The League was founded by the then young industrialist Joakim Lehmkuhl who was later known as the founder of the clock manufacturer Timex Inc in the United States, and Lehmkuhl Industrier in Norway. Some of the driving forces for the creation of the league were polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen, who was also Lehmkuhl's father-in-law. The league was most active in the early years when a majority of the country's citizenship, feared a coup by the Bolsheviks, communists or socialists, which would have made Norway a Soviet state. The team lost much of its importance after the Labour Party was democratized and their movement was no longer revolutionary. The League gained some notoriety in 1933 when some of its members lobbied for the nomination of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Anders Lange left the league in 1938 when its leadership was taken over by Vidkun Quisling and his followers in the Nasjonal Samling. During the Second World War, Lange was an active member of the Norwegian resistance movement against the German occupation.
Post-war
During most of the postwar years Anders Lange traveled around, and agitated for more personal freedom, lower taxes and less bureaucracy. In his time, Lange was perhaps the most well-known agitator and a popular speaker in bourgeois circles.
In 1947 he became secretary of the Norwegian Kennel Club., and started a dog kennel in Oppegård. In 1948 he also started to publish the "Dog magazine" (Hundeavisen), of which he himself was editor. In 1962 however, the newspaper changed its name to "Anders Lange's Magazine" (Anders Langes Avis), which started to focus on anti-communism and opposition to established political parties, politicians as well as taxes. The magazine was also a supporter of the Apartheid-regime of South Africa. He created the youth organization "Anders Lange's Freedom Movement" (Anders Langes Frihetsbevegelse) of which its members popularly got the name "Lange's dog boys". In the mid-1960s the organization got some attention after some of its members which were young officers in the army attempted to enlist for the Vietnam War.
In January 1972 he applied for the job as a broadcast manager of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Anders Lange's Party
In 1973 he founded his own party with the long but informative name Anders Lange's Party for a Strong Reduction in Taxes, Duties and Public Intervention (commonly known simply as Anders Lange's Party). The protest movement was an immediate success, capturing 5% of the votes in the parliament election the same year. By that Lange secured himself a seat in the Norwegian parliament where he served until he died of heart failure the next year. After his death ALP was reformed by Carl I. Hagen, and evolved into the more moderate right-wing Progress Party, which today is the second largest political party in Norway.
Political views
Apartheid
Anders Lange was also controversial in that he, on several occasions, supported the apartheid in South Africa. He wrote several articles about this in his own newspaper "Hundeavisen" (later renamed "Anders Langes Avis"). In the same paper, on April the 16th, 1963 he called those who where against apartheid "traitors of the white race". His political partner Erik Gjems-Onstad was also a defender of apartheid through the 1960s, 70's and 80's.
References
- ^ Meland, Astrid (8 April 2003). "I kinosalens mørke". Dagbladet.
- http://www.retriever-info.com/proxy/?id=055016197201082mQ3xs3jcrUw3E7ZaR4zkY7G100201010819&x=45f2852d2e4a4b821efedd46c4f86c68