Valborg Svensson
{{Short description|Swedish journalist and politician (1903–1983)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
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| office = Member of the Stockholm city council
| term_start = 1942
| term_end = 1962
| birth_name = Greta Valborg Elisabet Svensson
| birth_date = 29 January 1903
| birth_place = Huskvarna, Jönköping, Sweden
| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|4|20|1903|1|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Bromma parish, Stockholm county, Sweden
| restingplace = Skogskyrkogården, Gamla Enskede, Stockholm
| party = Communist Party
| spouse =
| nationality = Swedish
| awards =
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Valborg Svensson (29 January 1903 – 20 April 1983) was a Swedish communist politician and journalist. She was a long-term member of the Stockholm city council and contributed to various publications of the Communist Party.
Early life
Svensson was born in Huskvarna, Jönköping, on 29 January 1903.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Greta Valborg Elisabet Svensson|url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/ValborgSvensson|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon}} Her mother died when she was 7. Her father married again, and she was adopted by a teacher when the family had more children.
At 15 she began to work as a maid and then became a worker at a textile factory in Jönköping between 1923 and 1927.{{cite book|author=Irene Andersson|editor=Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir|display-editors=et. al.|title=Biography, Gender and History: Nordic Perspectives
|year=2016|publisher=K & h, kulttuurihistoria|location=Turku|isbn=978-951-29-6678-3|pages=165–185|chapter-url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080950512|chapter=Telling stories of gendered place and space: The political agency of the Swedish Communist Valborg Svensson (1903–1983)|oclc=1080950512 }}
Political activities
Svensson joined the Communist Party in 1928. She was a board member of a publication entitled Arbetarkvinnornas tidning (Swedish: Working women’s paper) from 1930 which was affiliated with the Communist Party. She also edited a section of the communist newspaper, Ny Dag. She received political training in Moscow from 1930 to 1933. Upon her return to Sweden she served in the central committee of the Communist Party in the period 1933–1936. She went to Bergen, Norway, where she contributed to the activities of the labor movement between 1936 and 1938. In 1942 she was elected to the Stockholm city council for the Communist Party. Following World War II she became a member of the Svenska Kvinnors Vänsterförbund (SKV; Swedish women's leftist federation), an organization affiliated with the Women's International Democratic Federation. In the 1950s she was part of the editorial board of Vi kvinnor i democratikt worldförbund, a publication of the Communist Party. Svennson served in the Stockholm city council until 1962.
Personal life and death
Svensson married a Norwegian journalist, Arvid G. Hansen, in 1931.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Arvid G. Hansen|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Arvid_G._Hansen|language=no}} They divorced in 1939. She died in Bromma parish, Stockholm county, on 20 April 1983.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Irene Andersson|title=Greta Valborg Elisabet Svensson|language=sv
|encyclopedia=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=34944}} She was buried at
Skogskyrkogården in Gamla Enskede, Stockholm.
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Category:20th-century Swedish journalists
Category:20th-century Swedish women politicians
Category:Local politicians in Sweden
Category:Swedish women journalists
Category:People from Huskvarna
Category:Left Party (Sweden) politicians