Aina Erlander Explained

Birthname:Aina Andersson
Office:Spouse of the Prime Minister of Sweden
Primeminister:Tage Erlander
Term Label:In role
Term Start:11 October 1946
Term End:14 October 1969
Predecessor:Elisabeth Hansson
Successor:Lisbeth Palme
Birth Date:28 September 1902
Birth Place:Lund, Sweden
Death Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Party:Social Democrats
Children:Sven 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.

Biography

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 worked together in the chemistry department.[3] They married in 1930 and had two sons.[4] Aina worked as a teacher at Södra flickläroverket 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 effects 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.

After her husband resigned from the premiership in 1969,, the couple lived in a house constructed at Bommersvik by the Social Democrats to honor Tage, which was owned by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League.

Following the death of her husband in 1985, she sorted and edited his papers. She died in 1990, and is buried beside him.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Reminiscences of the Nobel Festival, 1950 . NobelPrize.org . Philip S. . Hench . 6 November 2001 . 2 December 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060721095450/http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/ceremony_sthlm/eyewitness/hench/index.html . 21 July 2006 . live .
  2. Web site: Under Erlanders tid byggdes välfärdssamhället upp. Nya Wermlandstidningen. Swedish. Peter Nilsson. 10 June 2016. 3 November 2016. 4 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161104075234/http://nwt.se/munkfors/2015/06/10/under-erlanders-tid-byggdes. dead.
  3. Web site: Lundberg. Björn. Aina Erlander. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon . 2023-09-11.
  4. Web site: Tage F. Erlander Dies At 84; Swedish Leader For 2 Decades. 1985-06-22. The New York Times. 2023-09-11.