Background
Palme was born in Porvoo, Finland as the son of the Swedish politician and artillery officer Sven Palme and Finnish Hanna von Born.
Palme was born in Porvoo, Finland as the son of the Swedish politician and artillery officer Sven Palme and Finnish Hanna von Born.
He went to school in Stockholm and later studied history at the University of Uppsala.
He was the uncle of Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden, who was murdered in 1986. He was openly racist and has been described as a proto-fascist. In January 1918 Palme organized the voluntary Swedish Brigade to join the Finnish Civil War, fighting aside with the Finnish White Guards.
He was killed by the Reds on the first day of the Battle of Tampere in April 1918.
Palme was buried in Sigtuna. Olof Palme was the brother of the military officer Nils Palme and the businessman Gunnar Palme (1886–1934), who was the father of the prime minister Olof Palme.
The couple had five children, Sven Ulric Palme (1912–1977) was known as a historian and Rutger Palme (1910–1995) as a politician.
Palme was known as a keen anti-socialist who was radicalized after the 1906 Hakaniemi riot in Helsinki.
