Valborg Svensson | |
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Member of the Stockholm city council | |
In office 1942–1962 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Greta Valborg Elisabet Svensson 29 January 1903 Huskvarna, Jönköping, Sweden |
Died | 20 April 1983 Bromma parish, Stockholm county, Sweden | (aged 80)
Resting place | Skogskyrkogården, Gamla Enskede, Stockholm |
Political party | Communist Party |
Valborg Svensson (29 January 1903 – 20 April 1983) was a Swedish communist politician and journalist. She was a long-term member of the Stockholm city council and contributed to various publications of the Communist Party.
Svensson was born in Huskvarna, Jönköping, on 29 January 1903. [1] Her mother died when she was 7. [1] Her father married again, and she was adopted by a teacher when the family had more children. [1]
At 15 she began to work as a maid and then became a worker at a textile factory in Jönköping between 1923 and 1927. [2]
Svensson joined the Communist Party in 1928. [1] She was a board member of a publication entitled Arbetarkvinnornas tidning (Swedish: Working women’s paper) from 1930 which was affiliated with the Communist Party. [3] She also edited a section of the communist newspaper, Ny Dag. [3] She received political training in Moscow from 1930 to 1933. [3] Upon her return to Sweden she served in the central committee of the Communist Party in the period 1933–1936. [3] She went to Bergen, Norway, where she contributed to the activities of the labor movement between 1936 and 1938. [3] In 1942 she was elected to the Stockholm city council for the Communist Party. [1] Following World War II she became a member of the Svenska Kvinnors Vänsterförbund (SKV; Swedish women's leftist federation), an organization affiliated with the Women's International Democratic Federation. [2] In the 1950s she was part of the editorial board of Vi kvinnor i democratikt worldförbund, a publication of the Communist Party. [3] Svennson served in the Stockholm city council until 1962. [1] [3]
Svensson married a Norwegian journalist, Arvid G. Hansen, in 1931. [4] They divorced in 1939. [4] She died in Bromma parish, Stockholm county, on 20 April 1983. [3] She was buried at Skogskyrkogården in Gamla Enskede, Stockholm. [1]