Hanna Lindberg (28 August 1865 – 2 January 1951) was a

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municipal politician (

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), feminist and

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. She was the first woman in the

Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of the Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...

city municipal council. Alongside the other women elected into various municipal councils in Sweden in the 1910 elections, she was also the first woman to be elected in a municipal council in Sweden. Hanna Lindberg had been a

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and a milliner before she opened her own hat shop in 1891 and her own

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-factory, ''AB Lindberg Strå- & Filthattar'' (AB Lindberg Straw- and felthats) in 1898. She was active within the

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

society,

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as well as the frisinnade föreningen (liberals). Being unmarried and thereby of legal majority, as well as wealthy, she had been able to vote for many years, under the voting law of 1862, before all genders became eligible to the municipal elections after the 1909 reform, and after the 1910 municipal elections, she was one of the women elected into local councils, becoming the first elected woman of her country. Her installation in the communical council attracted attention as an historical event and was carefully described: Hanna Lindberg sat one full term, until 1914. In the city of Örebro, two more women sat in the council before the national women suffrage: Mathilda Tengwall in 1914–1920, and Amalia Lundgren as a temporary replacement in 1916.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindberg, Hanna 1865 births 20th-century Swedish women politicians 20th-century Swedish politicians Swedish feminists 1951 deaths Milliners 19th-century Swedish businesspeople Local politicians in Sweden Swedish women business executives Swedish industrialists 19th-century Swedish businesswomen

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