Hanna Lindberg

Who was Hanna Lindberg?

Hanna Lindberg was a Swedish Municipal Politician, feminist and milliner. She was the first woman in the Örebro city municipal council. Alongside the other women elected into various municipal councils in Sweden in the 1910 elections, she was also the first woman to be elected in a municipal council in Sweden.

Hanna Lindberg had been a Gofer and a milliner before she opened her own hat shop in 1891 and her own hat-factory, AB Lindberg Strå- & Filthattar in 1898. She was active within the women's suffrage society, YMCA as well as the frisinnade föreningen. Being unmarried and thereby of legal majority, as well as wealthy, she had been able to vote for many years, under the voting law of 1862, before all genders became eligible to the municipal elections after the 1909 reform, and after the 1910 municipal elections, she was one of the women elected into local councils, becoming the first elected woman of her country.

Her installation in the communcal council attracted attention as an historical event and was carefully described: