Karin Enström

Defense Minister Karin Enström

Karin Märta Elisabeth Enström , née Landerholm (born March 23, 1966 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish politician and professional officer .

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Military background

Karin Enström was born in 1966 as Karin Märta Elisabeth Landerholm. After compulsory school, she went straight to the Swedish military and trained as an officer in the navy in Karlskrona from 1985 to 1987 . She also completed the allmänna course (German basic course ) at the Krigshögskolan of the Navy in 1988 and the listening course (German higher course ) in 1993 . From 1987 to 1998 she was part of the unit KA1 / Amf1 of the Swedish Navy stationed in Vaxholm .

Political career

From 1991 to 1992 Karin Enström was Secretary General of the Moderata ungdomsförbundet , the youth association of the Moderata samlingspartiet, and from 1993 to 1994 she worked as an expert in the Ministry of Industry. From 1998 she was a member of the Swedish Parliament and between 1998 and 2000 and 1998 and 2010, respectively, a deputy member of the Constitutional Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She was a substitute member of the Judiciary Committee between 2000 and 2002 and of the Social Affairs Committee between 2000 and 2006. From 2002 Enström was a member of the Defense Committee, from 2008 also its chairman. From 2010 she was also a member of the Swedish War Delegation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Foreign Department, Chair of the Parliamentary Delegation in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She was also chairwoman of the Vaxholm City Council from 2002 to 2006 and 2010 to 2012. On April 19, 2012, she was appointed to succeed the Defense Minister Sten Tolgfors , who resigned after a scandal, in the Fredrik Reinfeldt government.

Web links

Commons : Karin Enström  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official portrait on the Swedish government website (English / Swedish)
• Official Blog (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Career ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Karin Enström ny försvarsminister. In: Svenska Dagbladet . April 19, 2012, Retrieved February 13, 2013 (Swedish).