Gertrud Adelborg

Who is Gertrud Adelborg?

Gertrud Virginia Adelborg was a Swedish active in the women's rights movement She was the daughter of Captain and noble Jacob Adelborg and Hedvig af Uhr and the sister of painter Ottilia Adelborg and textile artist Maria Adelborg. She was never married.

Adelborg was a teacher in 1874-79 and employed at Svea hovrätt 1881-83. Gertrud Adelborg was active within the Swedish women's movement and the struggle for woman suffrage. She worked for the bureau of the Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet or FBF in 1884-1907 and was a member of the central comity of FBF in 1897-1915. She initiated the FBF:s school for the education of female teachers at Rimforsa, where she belonged to the school board in 1907-21.

In 1899, a delegation from the FBF presented a suggestion of woman suffrage to prime minister Erik Gustaf Boström. The delegation was headed by Agda Montelius, accompanied by Gertrud Adelborg, who had written the demand. This was the first time the Swedish women's movement themselves had officially presented a demand for suffrage.

Gertrud Adelborg was a member of the central comity in the Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt or LKPR in 1903-06.