Per Sundberg (activist)
Per Sundberg (11 October 1889 – 16 November 1947) was a Swedish educator and peace activist.
Life[edit]
Sundberg was an important educator in Sweden from the 1920s on. In 1927, together with architect Carl Malmsten he founded Olofskolan in Stockholm.[1] In 1928 he founded the boarding school Viggbyholmsskolan in Täby, which was dedicated to progressive education. It was the first mixed boarding school in Sweden.[2][3]
He was a Quaker and was a peace activist. Already in 1933 Sundberg supported refugees from Nazi Germany by accommodating them in the boarding school. In 1936, he started a Quaker committee for supporting German refugees in which he was engaged in until his death.[4] In 1943 he was involved in starting the Swedish branch of Service Civil International, Internationella Arbetslag.
The writer Gunnar Sundberg (1922-2005) is his son.
References[edit]
- ^ "Olofskolan (SE-SSA - SESSA1424) - Archives Portal Europe". www.archivesportaleurope.net. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Så växte läkepedagogiken och socialterapin fram i Sverige". Ytterjärna forum. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Viggbyholmsskolan". Stadsarkivet Stockholm.
- ^ Dünzelmann, Anne (2017). Stockholmer Spaziergänge: Auf den Spuren deutscher Exilierter 1933-1945. p. 185.