Elisabeth Rehn

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Elisabeth Rehn, 1993

Märta Elisabeth Rehn (born April 6, 1935 in Helsinki ; born Märta Elisabeth Carlberg ) is a Finnish politician for the Swedish People's Party . She is a Finland-Swedish and therefore a member of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.

Private and professional

Rehn was born in Helsinki in 1935 as the youngest daughter of the doctor Andreas Carlberg and his wife Ruth Leonida Weurlander, but grew up in Mäntsälä , where her father worked as a community doctor . She completed a degree in business administration , which she completed in Helsinki with a master's degree in 1957 . In addition, she received two honorary doctorates from the Swedish School of Commerce (1994) and the Åbo Akademi (1998).

From 1960 Rehn worked as an office manager at Renecta, from 1965 to 1977 she moved to the company's board of directors. She introduced Tupperware in Finland in the early 1960s . She also worked from 1972 to 1977 at the Kauniainen University as a career counselor for the students and sat on the Kauniainen City Council from 1973 to 1980.

Elisabeth Rehn had been married to Ove Harald Rehn since 1955, who died in November 2004. She has four children with him.

Political career

In 1979 she became a member of the Finnish Parliament . She was also the leader of her party from 1987 to 1990. On 13 June 1990 she was Prime Minister Harri Holkeri to the defense minister appointed when - after Indira Gandhi - the second woman worldwide . Holkeri's successor Esko Aho also handed her this post and made her also Minister of Social Affairs and Health on May 17, 1991 . She held both offices until January 1, 1995. Immediately afterwards and after leaving the Finnish Parliament, she was elected to the European Parliament, where she belonged to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe . During this time she was active in the Committee on Women's Rights and in the Subcommittee on Human Rights.

Rehn had run against Martti Ahtisaari for the office of President of Finland in 1994 , but lost just under 46.1% of the vote. In 2000 she tried again, but this time lost with 7.9% of the vote in the first ballot. In the end, Tarja Halonen prevailed against Esko Aho .

In 1982 Elisabeth Rehn became a member of the Board of Directors of the Finnish Committee for UNICEF , and in 1988 she took over its chairmanship (until 1993). She was Vice-Chairwoman of the Finnish Red Cross from 1984 to 1988 and was a member of the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund in Finland from 2000 to 2006 . From 1995 to 1998 she served as UN - Special Rapporteur active in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Yugoslavia, then to June 1999 as Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

In 2004, Rehn was voted 92nd among the 100 most important Finns . She is a member of the European Leadership Network .

Works

literature

  • Staffan Bruun: Elisabeth Rehn. Otava-Verlag, Helsinki 1995, ISBN 951-1-13457-4
  • Saska Snellman, Elisabeth Rehn: Kaikki on mahdollista. 90-luvun muistelmat. W. Söderstrom, Porvoo 1998, ISBN 951-0-22336-0

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Rehn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ statfin.stat.fi: Results of the counts of the last elections in Finland ( memento of the original from December 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / statfin.stat.fi
personal data
SURNAME Rehn, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehn, Märta Elisabeth (full name); Carlberg, Märta Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish politician (Swedish People's Party), member of the Reichstag
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki