10 Facts About Signe Bergman

Signe Wilhelmina Ulrika Bergman was a Swedish feminist.

Signe Bergman was the chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage which was then called The Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage in English from 1914 to 1917 and the Swedish delegate to International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1909 to 1920.

Signe Bergman was the organiser of the congress of the Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1911 and the editor of the paper of the LKPR, Rostratt for kvinnor.

Signe Bergman was born a member of a family of officials in Stockholm and was given a high but informal education.

Signe Bergman spent some years in Great Britain, where she worked in the institute of her cousin Martina Bergman-Osterberg, as well as an assistant to a researcher at the British Museum before she returned to Sweden, where she worked as a clerk at the Sveriges allmanna hypoteksbank.

Signe Bergman was one of the leading figures of the Swedish suffrage movement, if not the perhaps most famous during her lifetime.

Signe Bergman was the editor of the organisation's paper, and from 1909 to 1920, she was a member of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and represented Sweden at several international suffrage congresses.

Signe Bergman was a social democrat, described as firm and effective, and is referred to as the dominant force within the organisation's central committee and the brain behind its actions, collections and meetings.

Signe Bergman was the organiser of the congress of the Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1911, which was described as a great success of the LKPR.

Signe Bergman was therefore not formally made chair until the conflicts had calmed down in 1914.