Yngve Sondrol
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Yngve Sondrol | |
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| Premier of Scovern | |
| In office June 22, 1915 – October 17, 1915 | |
| Monarch | Olav VII |
| Preceded by | Valdemar Sloth |
| Succeeded by | Nils Lovdahl |
| In office April 10, 1919 – May 31, 1921 | |
| Preceded by | Silas Pihl-Winther |
| Succeeded by | Asmus-Steen Lauritzsen |
| Kultus Minister | |
| In office October 17, 1915 – January 7, 1916 | |
| Premier | Nils Lovdahl |
| Preceded by | Boje Ottesen |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Enevoldsen |
| Minister without portfolio | |
| In office January 7, 1916 – April 10, 1919 | |
| Premier | Silas Pihl-Winther |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Yngve Sondrol 15 July 1876 Rimso, Scovern |
| Died | 1 February 1944 (aged 67) Priedīši, Valduvia |
| Political party | Scovernois 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.