Valborg Svensson

Valborg Svensson
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(1983-04-20) (aged 80) Bromma parish, Stockholm county, Sweden
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.

Early life

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]

Political activities

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]

Personal life and death

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]

References

1. "Greta Valborg Elisabet Svensson". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon.
2. Irene Andersson (2016). "Telling stories of gendered place and space: The political agency of the Swedish Communist Valborg Svensson (1903–1983)". In Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir; et al. (eds.). Biography, Gender and History: Nordic Perspectives. Turku: K & h, kulttuurihistoria. pp. 165–185. ISBN 978-951-29-6678-3. OCLC 1080950512.
3. Irene Andersson. "Greta Valborg Elisabet Svensson". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish).
4. "Arvid G. Hansen". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian).

External links

• Media related to Valborg Svensson 1903 at Wikimedia Commons