Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic politician
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Place of Birth: Iceland
About Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
- Bergur Sigurbjörnsson (May 20, 1917 – July 28, 2005) was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician. He studied business in the University of Iceland, and later went on to study economics in Stockholm University.
- He founded the weekly magazine, Frjáls þjóð ('Free Nation') in 1952, and was the magazine's editor until 1967.
- He was a prominent supporter of Hannibal Valdimarsson's campaign to be elected to the Alþing as an independent.
- He himself ventured into politics, forming the National Preservation Party in 1953, for which he was a member between 1953 and 1956. He was a proponent of complete self-determination for Iceland, and as such, strongly opposed both Iceland's membership of NATO and the 1951 American occupation of Iceland.
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