Hildur Nygren Explained

Office:	Member of the Riksdag
Term Start:	1941
Term End:	1952
Birth Date:	22 March 1896
Birth Place:	Gävle, Sweden
Death Place:	Lidingö, Sweden
Party:	Swedish Social Democratic Party

Hildur Nygren (22 March 1896–24 April 1962) was a Swedish teacher and politician with the Social Democrats. She was elected as a member of the executive committee of the Gävle city council.^[1] She sat in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) from 1941 to 1952 and was the second female cabinet minister and the first female minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs in Sweden.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Jan Gröndahl . Karin Sporre . H Russel Botman . Building a Human Rights Culture: South African and Swedish Perspectives . 2003 . Högskolan Dalarna . Falun . 978-91-88679-19-2 . 77 . Curbing Women’s Suffrage: Expectations, Apprehensions and Strategies . Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet.
2. Web site: Hildur Kristina Nygren . Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon . 29 April 2020.
   - News: Dick Harrison . Vem var vår andra kvinnliga minister? . 9 June 2016 . . 29 April 2020 . sv . Who was our second female minister? . 1101-2412.