{"product_id":"hallgrimur-hallgrimsson-i-ii-77681-60777","title":"Hallgrimur Hallgrimsson I-II # 77681","description":"Hallgrímur Hallgrímursson 1910-1942. Compiled by Ólafur Grímur Björnsson.\u003cbr\u003e Good copies, signed.\u003cbr\u003e Hallgrímur Baldi Hallgrímsson (10 November 1910 – 14 November 1942) was an Icelandic labor leader, revolutionary, and communist. He was one of three Icelanders who traveled to Spain to fight with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. During the British occupation of Iceland, he was imprisoned for a time for the Dreifibréfsmaal (Dispatch Letter Case). He died in 1942 aboard the longliner Sæborg, which sank en route from Seyðisfjörður to Húsavík. \u003cbr\u003eHallgrímur was born in Slétta, Mjóafjörður, on November 10, 1910. Hallgrímur's father, Kristján Hallgrímur Jónsson, had died in a boating accident the summer before Hallgrímur was born. As a child, Hallgrímur accompanied his mother, Sigríður Björnsdóttir, in working jobs throughout Þingeyjarsýsla. While Hallgrímur attended Akureyri Secondary School as a teenager, he attended evening classes led by Einar Olgeirsson, where he became acquainted with Marxist theories and became a radical socialist. Hallgrímur dropped out of school after his secondary school exam to protest the expulsion of two students from Akureyri Secondary School who were accused of writing propaganda for the Akureyri Social Democratic Party.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHallgrímur moved to Reykjavík when he was twenty and was active there in both writing articles and labor struggles while working as a day laborer at the harbor. In the winter of 1930, Hallgrímur participated in the founding of the Communist Party of Iceland. The following year, Hallgrímur was sent with other young members of the party to Moscow, where the Comintern, the International Communist Organization, had given them a mandate to attend school. Hallgrímur was the only Icelander to attend both the Western School and the Lenin School there, where it is likely that he received some training in weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHallgrímur returned to Iceland in 1932 and took command of the Workers' Defense Force, a combat unit of Icelandic communists intended to counter the armed police forces of Reykjavík and the forces of Icelandic Nazis. Hallgrímur earned great favor among communists in 1933 when he and his comrades attacked the German ship Eider in the harbor of Reykjavík and stole a swastika flag from its mast, which Einar Olgeirsson then trampled on that evening at a party meeting of the Communist Party. \u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1937, Hallgrímur traveled to Spain via France to fight with the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. After arriving in Spain, Hallgrímur briefly attended a military academy in Albacete, but was then sent to an officer's academy in Madrigueras. Since Hallgrímur spoke both German and Scandinavian languages, he played an important role as an interpreter between the different nationalities within the Thälmann units of the Republican Army. It is believed that he was also a political leader within the units, tasked with organizing soldiers and maintaining discipline. Hallgrímur fought in the Battle of the Ebro and was awarded the Medal of Honor and the rank of sergeant for his actions in the battles of Gandesa and Batea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHallgrímur left Spain on November 20, 1938, after the Republican government decided to send all foreign volunteers home. He returned to Iceland on December 4 and traveled around the country giving lectures about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e After the British occupied Iceland during World War II, Hallgrímur came into conflict with the authorities in 1941 in connection with the so-called Handbill Case. Hallgrímur was accused of having translated a handbill into English in which British soldiers were encouraged not to take on the jobs of striking Icelandic workers. As a result, Hallgrímur was arrested and held first in the Penitentiary and then in Litla-Hraun, where he was held in solitary confinement for 52 days. Hallgrímur fell ill in prison and was in the X-ray department of the National Hospital while his wife, Oddný Pétursdóttir, gave birth to their daughter in July 1941.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHallgrímur was released from prison on December 20, 1941, and quickly resumed his work in political and labor affairs. In the fall of 1942, he traveled around the East Fjords as a Socialist Party delegate, delivering a speech about the Spanish Civil War. On November 14, he boarded the longliner Sæborg bound for Húsavík. However, the ship never returned to its destination. 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