Aina Erlander (née Andersson; 28 September 1902 – 24 February 1990) was a
Swedish
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lecturer
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and the wife of
Swedish Prime Minister
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Tage Erlander
Tage Fritjof Erlander (; 13 June 1901 – 21 June 1985) was a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and led the government for an uninterrupted tenur ...
from 1930
until his death in June 1985.
Aina Erlander's father was a mill and factory owner active in right wing politics. Erlander attended a girls school and
gymnasium, and then continued her studies in Lund. In 1923, she met Tage Erlander, a fellow student in Lund; they married in 1930 and had two children. Aina worked as a teacher at
Södra flickläroverket in
Stockholm
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when Tage Erlander became
Prime Minister of Sweden
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in October 1946.
Aina Erlander was a member of the board of
Save the Children
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and in 1949 travelled to the then
West Germany
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, suffering the effects of
World War II
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. In 1954 she visited the
Netherlands
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, which had been
flooded
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in 1953. In 1957 Erlander became chairperson of
Unga Örnar (sv) ('Young Eagles', a children's and youth rights organisation affiliated to the
), a position she retained for nine years.
Following the death of her husband in 1985, she sorted and edited his papers.
.
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1902 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Swedish people
Spouses of prime ministers of Sweden
Swedish schoolteachers