Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization

Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization
Svenska Lottakåren
S·L·K
Riksförbundet Sveriges lottakårer
Coat of arms of the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization
Founded1924; 100 years ago (1924)
Country Sweden
Size5,000
Garrison/HQStockholm

The Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization[a] (Swedish: Svenska Lottakåren (SLK) communicatively, lit. 'The Swedish Lotta Corps', and Riksförbundet Sveriges lottakårer juridically, lit. 'national federation of Sweden's lotta corps'[b])[3] is an independent auxiliary defence organization in Sweden. The organisation is part of the Swedish Total Defence (Totalförsvaret), the national defence strategy of Sweden.

The organisation was created in 1924 as a Swedish version of the Finnish equivalent organisation Lotta Svärd (created in 1918),[4] which subsequently inspired other Scandinavian and the Baltic states to create their own organisations based on the same principles. These are collectively called "Lotta movements" as the majority of these organisations have adopted the name Lotta as the general designation for organisation members.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ "Svenska Lottakåren in English". Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. ^ Gullberg 1977, p. 741
  3. ^ Grafisk identitet 2008, p. 1
  4. ^ Sundevall, Fia (2017). "Money, Gender and Military Training: Women as Economic Agents in Military Affairs (Sweden 1924–1942)". Militärhistorisk tidskrift [Swedish journal of military history].
  5. ^ "PDF about Estonia's Lotta movement history" (PDF). naiskodukaitse.ee. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  6. ^ "Taasloomine". naiskodukaitse.ee. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  7. ^ "NORGES LOTTEFORBUND". lottene.no. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  8. ^ "FOV Nyhedsbrev nr.12, 2001". fov.dk. 2001. Archived from the original on 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2021-01-05.


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