Aina Erlander

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Aina Erlander
Aina Erlander 1966b.jpg
Erlander in 1966
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Sweden
In role
11 October 1946 – 14 October 1969
Prime MinisterTage Erlander
Preceded byElisabeth Hansson
Succeeded byLisbeth Palme
Personal details
Born
Aina Andersson

(1902-09-28)28 September 1902
Lund, Sweden
Died24 February 1990(1990-02-24) (aged 87)
Stockholm, Sweden
Political partySocial Democrats
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1930; died 1985)​
ChildrenSven Erlander
Bo Erlander

Aina Erlander (née Andersson; 28 September 1902 – 24 February 1990) was a Swedish lecturer and the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander[1] from 1930[2] 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 in Stockholm when Tage Erlander became Prime Minister of Sweden in October 1946.

Aina Erlander was a member of the board of Save the Children and in 1949 travelled to the then West Germany, suffering the affects of World War II. In 1954 she visited the Netherlands, which had been flooded in 1953. In 1957 Erlander became chairperson of Unga Örnar (sv) ('Young Eagles', a children's and youth rights organisation affiliated to the International Falcon Movement – Socialist Educational International), a position she retained for nine years.

Following the death of her husband in 1985, she sorted and edited his papers. .

References[]

  1. ^ Hench, Philip S. (6 November 2001). "Reminiscences of the Nobel Festival, 1950". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 21 July 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2006.
  2. ^ Peter Nilsson (10 June 2016). "Under Erlanders tid byggdes välfärdssamhället upp" (in Swedish). Nya Wermlandstidningen. Retrieved 3 November 2016.

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