Yngve Sondrol

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Yngve Sondrol
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Premier of Scovern
In office
June 22, 1915 – October 17, 1915
MonarchOlav VII
Preceded byValdemar Sloth
Succeeded byNils Lovdahl
In office
April 10, 1919 – May 31, 1921
Preceded bySilas Pihl-Winther
Succeeded byAsmus-Steen Lauritzsen
Kultus Minister
In office
October 17, 1915 – January 7, 1916
PremierNils Lovdahl
Preceded byBoje Ottesen
Succeeded byCaroline Enevoldsen
Minister without portfolio
In office
January 7, 1916 – April 10, 1919
PremierSilas Pihl-Winther
Personal details
Born
John Yngve Sondrol

(1876-07-15)15 July 1876
Rimso, Scovern
Died1 February 1944(1944-02-01) (aged 67)
Priedīši, Valduvia
Political partyScovernois Section of the Workers' International

John Yngve Sondrol (July 15, 1876 – February 1, 1944; aged 67) was a Scovernois socialist politician who was twice Premier of Scovern, first in 1915 and later between 1919 and 1921. Sondrol was an influential figure and ideologue of the Scovernois Section of the Workers' International in the 1910s and 1920s.

Born in Rimso in 1876, Sondrol's political career began with the Rimso Youth Nemtsovist League in 1893. He was a key organiser of the Scovernois Communist League that preceded the founding of the Scovernois Section to contest the 1908 election. Sondrol became the second leader of the new party and led vehement opposition to the incumbent Valdemar Sloth, organising numerous rallies across Scovern's major cities. The Section won the 1915 election under Sondrol, the first to be held under universal suffrage, but he only held the office of premier for 117 days before factionalism within the party saw him forced to resign to the role of Kultus Minister in the cabinet of his successor, Nils Lovdahl.

Sondrol, an ardent Nemtsovist and revolutionary, came at odds with the social democrat Silas Pihl-Winther during his premiership, serving as minister without portfolio throughout. Nevertheless, Sondrol remained a popular figure amongst Scovernois socialists, and eventually regained the premiership in 1919 after Pihl-Winther resigned for health reasons. Supportive of the Valduvian Revolution, Sondrol was controversially dismissed by the Rigsdagen in response to the Lauerheim Plea spearheaded by his successor, the conservative Asmus-Steen Lauritzsen, and supported by social democrats within the Section. The dismissal resulted in widespread unrest that led to the 1922 Scovernois general strike, of which Sondrol was a central figure. His participation in the strikes saw him arrested later that year and accused of sedition and treason in a highly-publicised trial. Due to be convicted, Sondrol successfully escaped to Priedīši with the assistance of Valduvian intelligence in 1923, where he lived the rest of his life. He remained active in Scovern's socialist circles after his escape to Valduvia, issuing radio broadcasts and writing columns under the nom de plume V. M. Fuglsang, even after the Scovernois Section was banned in 1924.

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Political career

Exile and later life

Death and legacy

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