Walther Bringolf
Walther Bringolf (1 August 1895 – 24 March 1981) was a former President of the National Council of Switzerland (1961/1962).[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D6130.php Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (German)] He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland[https://books.google.com/books?id=11l9BuA7gOIC&q=Bringolf&pg=PA280 Secret Channel to Berlin by Pierre-Th Braunschweig, pgs 8, 11-14] and was a long-time mayor of Schaffhausen (1933–1968).[https://books.google.com/books?id=dN1VHc15igoC&pg=PA60 Why Switzerland? by Jonathan Steinberg, pg 60]
Communist activities
[[File:A group of members of the International Bureau of Proletkult, 1920.png|thumb|left|A group of members of the International Bureau of Proletkult.
Sitting (left to right): War Van Overstraeten, P. Lebedev-Polyansky (secretary). Anatoly Lunacharsky (chairman), Nicola Bombacci, Wilhelm Herzog, Standing Walther Bringolf, Jules Humbert-Droz]]
Bringolf sympathised with the Russian Revolution and attended the Second Congress of the Third International. Whilst there he attended the Kultintern conference and joined their Provisional International Bureau.
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