Gert Petersen

Gert Verner Petersen (19 August 1927 – 1 January 2009) was a journalist and politician who helped found and represent the Socialist People's Party. He was born in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark, as the son of the factory worker Karen Rolandsen. He got a high school diploma from Nykøbing Katedralskole in 1945 and studied history at the University of Copenhagen. In 1940 At thirteen years old he was a member of the Nazi National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark for ten months but changed his political views and was from 1943 an active member of the resistance and was captured by the Gestapo in 1944 and incarcerated in the Frøslev camp until the end of the German occupation of Denmark He became a member of the Communist Party of Denmark in...