Helga Larsen
Helga Larsen née Petersen (1884–1947) was a Danish trade unionist and a pioneering female politician. She was one of the first four women to be elected to the Folketing (the Danish national parliament) in 1918. Biography Born in Copenhagen on 21 April 1884, Helga Petersen was the daughter of Marie Sofie Petersen (1869–1920) who worked in a brewery and had attempted to organize her colleagues in a trade union branch for female brewery workers. Brought up in a poor home, from the age of nine, Petersen had to work after school for six hours a day to make ends meet. Unable to follow a formal education, Petersen followed in her mother's footsteps as a brewery worker. From 1903 to 1906, she was appointed cashier in Copenhagen's newly founded (Female Brewery Workers Union), providing her with experience in trade union management. In 1907, she married Christian Larsen (1879–1920) who was employed by the tramcar authority. The following year, her colleagues invited her to chair ...
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