Ellen Svinhufvud

Ellen Svinhufvud
Photograph of Ellen Svinhufvud
Ellen Svinhufvud in 1931.
Born
Alma Ellen Timgren[1]

(1869-12-23)23 December 1869
Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died24 August 1953(1953-08-24) (aged 83)
Luumäki, Finland
Spouse
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(m. 1889; died 1944)​
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Ellen Svinhufvud (née Timgren; 23 December 1869 – 24 August 1953)[2] was the wife of Finland's third president, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, serving as the First Lady of Finland from 1931 until 1937.[3]

She married Pehr Evind Svinhufvud in 1889, and the couple had six children.[3]

She was active in the women's paramilitary Lotta Svärd organisation, as well as in the Martha organisation.[3]

Her personal interests included various handicrafts, and she even had a loom installed in the Presidential Palace.[3] She was also a keen gardener, and skilled at looking after the family manor house and farm in Luumäki.[4][2]

  1. ^ "Svinhufvud, Pehr Evind". BLF.fi (in Swedish). Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Svinhufvud, Ellen". Uppslagsverket.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Svinhufvud, Ellen (1869-1953)". Kansallisbiografia.fi (in Finnish). National Biography of Finland. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Kotkaniemen tiluksilla vaalitaan presidentti Svinhufvudin perintöä" (in Finnish). Yle. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2022.