Anna Lindh
Politician
1957 – 2003
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Who was Anna Lindh?
Anna Lindh, born Ylva Anna Maria Lindh, was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, chairman of the Social Democratic Youth League from 1984 to 1990 and a member of parliament from 1982 to 1985 and 1998 to 2003. Joining the government as minister of environment in 1994, she was elevated to minister for foreign affairs by prime minister Göran Persson in 1998 and considered his successor as party chairman and prime minister before her assassination in September 2003. Lindh was married to Bo Holmberg, governor of Södermanland, with whom she had two sons.
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- Born
- Jun 19, 1957
Enskede-Årsta-Vantör - Spouses
- Bo Holmberg
(1991 - 2003)
- Bo Holmberg
- Children
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Uppsala University
- Died
- Sep 11, 2003
Stockholm
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on July 23, 2013
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