Olivia Nordgren
Politician
1880 – 1969
Who was Olivia Nordgren?
Olivia Lovisa Nordgren, Swedish typographer and Politician of the Social Democrats. She was an important part in the work against powerty in the 1930s in Sweden and one of the most known woman politicians in Sweden of that time.
Olivia Nordgren worked as a typographer from 1907. She was elected to the town council of Trelleborg in 1915, into the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic party in 1924, and to the parliament in 1926. She was a member of the food provision committee and active in the pension politic. She had a good relationship with Per Albin Hansson, who used to say, that if he was ever to appoint a woman to the post of minister, then it would be her. She was given Illis Quorum in recognition for her work in the reduction of poverty.
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