Karin Kock-Lindberg
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Karin Kock-Lindberg and Tage Erlander
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| Minister of Public Housekeeping | |
| In office 1948–1949 |
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| Born | 2 July 1891 |
| Died | 28 July 1976 (aged 85) |
| Political party | Social Democrat |
Karin Kock-Lindberg, née Kock (2 July 1891 – 28 July 1976), Swedish politician (social democrat) and professor of economics. In 1947 she became the first woman to hold a Ministerial position in Sweden.[1] She was also the first female professor of economics in Sweden.[1] Karin Kock was known as Karin Kock-Lindberg after her marriage to lawyer Hugo Lindberg in 1936.
Biography
Karin Kock was a student at the London School of Economics and Stockholm university.[1] She was a lecturer at Stockholm university in 1933-1938, and was appointed professor of economics in 1945, after already having functioned as such for several years.[1]
She published several works in economics, her speciality being credit and trade cycle problems.[2] Her English language works include her doctoral thesis A Study of Interest Rates (1929) and International Trade and the GATT (1969), as well as The National Income of Sweden 1861-1930 (1937) written in collaboration with two other economists.[2]
Karin Kock was given several official assignments, such as economic adviser at the Women's Workers Association in 1936 and government delegate at the International Workers' Conference in Paris in 1945.[1] She served as Minister without portfolio of the Economy in 1947–1948 and as Minister for the Domestic Economy in 1948-1949.[1]
Following the dissolving of the Ministry of the Domestic Economy in 1950, Karin Kock became Director of Statistics Sweden.[1] She was head of the agency from 1950 to 1957.[2] During 1953 and 1954 she was chairman of the Swedish Statistical Society.[2] She became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1956 and a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1958.[2]
As head of Sweden's delegation to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, she acted for some years as chairman of its plenary session in Geneva.[2]
Karin Kock was also chairperson of Akademiskt bildade kvinnors förening (The Association of Female Academicians) from 1926 to 1933 and vice president of International Federation of University Women.[1]
See also
References
- Focus uppslagsbok Stockholm
- Media Familjelexikon 7 Kat-Lat Bonniers, Verona (1981)
