Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen

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Danish trade unionist, politician and communist party member

PoliticiansLived 1907 to 1990 · aged 82

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Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen (1907-1990) was a Danish trade unionist, politician, and a member of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP).

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Andersen being arrested while speaking on Kongens Nytorv (1930s)

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SpouseAlfred Jensen

Politicians born in the 1900s 6

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Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen (1907-1990) was a Danish trade unionist, politician, and a member of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP). During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, she was sent by the Gestapo to the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk in Poland, where she spent 20 months in dreadful conditions before being rescued. After the war, she was elected to the Folketing, becoming a member of DKP's central committee and one of the most prominent members of the party. She promoted wider access to abortions and improvements to women's rights.