Alina Jägerstedt

Alina Jägerstedt (1858 - 1919) was a Swedish social democrat and trade unionist.

She was a tobacco worker and became the only female representative at the congress of 1889, were the Swedish Social Democratic Party was founded. She participated as the representative for the Scandinavian Tobacco workers union. Thanks to the motion she presented at the congress, women were included in the Swedish Social Democratic Party from its foundation.

She was elected to the Stockholm Retirement Comity in 1913.

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