Herman Lindqvist (born 1863,

Arboga Arboga () is a locality and the seat of Arboga Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden with 10,330 inhabitants in 2010. Overview The city of Arboga is known to have existed as a town since the 13th century but the area has been inhabited sinc ...

, d. 1932) was a

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Social Democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

politician and

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

organizer. By profession he was a furniture carpenter, and belonged to the

Swedish Wood Workers' Union The Swedish Wood Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Träarbetareförbundet, Trä) was a trade union representing wood workers in Sweden. The union was founded in as the Wood Workers' Union of Sweden, and had 880 members by the end of the year. It grew ...

. He was the chairman of the

Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( sv, Landsorganisationen i Sverige ; literally "National Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions ...

1900–1920.LOs alla ordföranden genom tiderna
Landsorganisationen i Sverige

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Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians Members of the Andra kammaren 1863 births 1932 deaths Speakers of Andra kammaren {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub