Inger-Lena Hultberg

Inger-Lena Hultberg (born December 27, 1942 ) is considered the first woman in Sweden to volunteer for training for military service .

biography

Born and raised in Lund , Hultberg's father was a teacher and her mother a literary historian. From an early age she was interested in technology, specialized in mathematics at school and worked on a special project in aerodynamics. She was always interested in the family's car and motorcycles. While studying English in England, she spent her free time watching the planes at Croydon Airport and the old Biggin Hill airfield , famous for their wartime activities. Her first flight was in Sweden in an old Sk 16.1 two-seater , the low-wing aircraft was used to train fighter pilots .

Then she started studying physics at Lund University . During the summer vacation of 1962, she was the first woman to be accepted into the Swedish Air Force's training school in Västerås , where she spent most of her time in the central workshop in Arboga during her flight engineer training . She was the only woman in a group of 30 to return to the Air Force School in the summers of 1963 and 1964, where she graduated as a flight engineer. But she knew that she would never be accepted into the Air Force. She then decided to continue her academic studies and graduated from Lund University with a degree in mathematical physics.

Hultberg then worked as a physicist at Lund University Hospital until she retired in 2010.

Individual evidence

• Inger-Lena Hultberg: "Sveriges första kvinnliga värnpliktige" (in Swedish) Försvarsmakten 2016
• "Inger-Lena - Första trulan vid LTH" (in Swedish).