Bergur Sigurbjörnsson (20 May 1917 – 28 July 2005) was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician. He studied business in the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

, and later went on to study economics in

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

. 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 Hannibal Gísli Valdimarsson (13 January 1903 – 1 September 1991) was an Icelandic politician. Parliament He was a member of parliament from 1946 to 1959 for the Social Democratic Party and People's Alliance and then from 1963 to 1974 for the ...

's campaign to be elected to the

Alþing The (; ), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at (' thing fields' or 'assembly fields'), about east of what la ...

as an independent. He himself ventured into politics, forming the

National Preservation Party National Preservation Party () was a political party in Iceland. History The party was founded on 15 March 1953 by members of the Progressive Party, Social Democratic Party and Socialist Party.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of ...

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

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and the 1951 American occupation of Iceland.

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Bergur Sigurbjornsson 1917 births 2005 deaths Stockholm University alumni Bergur Sigurbjornsson {{Iceland-politician-stub

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