Georg Branting

{{Short description|Swedish politician and fencer}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Georg Branting

| image = Image:Georg Branting - Sveriges styresmän.jpg

| caption = Georg Branting

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|09|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|07|06|1887|09|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| resting_place = Adolf Fredrik Cemetery

| other_names =

| office1 = Member of the Riksdag

| term_start1 = 1932

| term_end1 = 1961

| alma_mater =

| party = Swedish Social Democratic Party

| spouse =

| children =

| parents = Hjalmar Branting
Anna Branting

| relatives =

}}

Georg Branting (21 September 1887 – 6 July 1965) was a Swedish Social Democrat[https://books.google.com/books?id=bbFpEU-FfbAC&dq=%22georg+branting%22&pg=PA140 Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden] (Google eBook) Klaus Misgeld, Karl Molin. Penn State Press, 1 November 2010 and Olympic fencer.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/georg-branting-1.html |title=Georg Branting Olympic Results |access-date=5 April 2010 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818200600/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/georg-branting-1.html |archive-date=18 August 2011}} He was the son of Hjalmar Branting and Anna Branting, and a member of the Riksdag 1932–1961.[https://books.google.com/books?id=kuM2hrtfvRsC&dq=%22georg+branting%22&pg=PA27 "Branting, Georg (1887 - 1965)"]. The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources since 1945. (Google eBook) Chris Cook. Routledge, 10 September 2012

In the Spanish Civil War, a Scandinavian battalion of the International Brigades was named after him, as a sign of thanks for his vehement support of the Spanish Republic. Related to the Civil War of Finland in 1918, he wrote a book translated in 1925 in Finnish as: Oikeudenkäyttö Suomessa, Muutamia asiakirjoja selityksineen. He competed for Sweden in fencing at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/23392 |title=Georg Branting |work=Olympedia |access-date=25 March 2021}}