page_title: Aksel Larsen
section_title: The SF years
hierarchical_section_title: Aksel Larsen / The SF years
context_page_description: Aksel Larsen was a Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark and chairman and founder of the Socialist People's Party. He is remembered today for his long service in the Communist Party of Denmark, for his time as a concentration camp inmate at Sachsenhausen, and for being the founder of the Socialist People's Party.
  Larsen became leader of the Communist Party in 1932, and was elected to Folketinget in 1932. Together with other Danish communists, Larsen had to go into hiding in 1941 when the Danish police began arresting all party members. After the liberation of World War II, Larsen became a minister in the liberation cabinet, and subsequently led his party to its best-ever result in the 1945 election, in which it took an eighth of all the votes. The election however, resulted in a Liberal government, and Larsen's party was mostly shunned by the other party leaders.
  After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Larsen condemned the Soviet Union's action. This led him into conflict with the members of the party leadership who had a greater loyalty to Moscow; a conflict that ended with his expulsion in November 1958.
caption: After being expelled from the Communist Party (DKP) in 1958, Aksel Larsen founded the Socialist People's Party (SF).