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Anna Lindh was a Swedish politician who served as Foreign Minister and was a prominent figure in Swedish politics until her assassination in 2003. She is remembered as an influential voice in European politics and Swedish public life during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anna
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of death
- Karolinska University Hospital
- Spouse
- Bo Holmberg
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Educated at
- Uppsala University
- Political party
- Swedish Social Democratic Party
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Image
- Anna Lindh 2002.jpg
- Work location
- Stockholm
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- killed by
- Mijailo Mijailović
- Commons category
- Anna Lindh
- date of birth
- 1957-06-19
- date of death
- 2003-09-11
- manner of death
- homicide
- Commons gallery
- Anna Lindh
- birth name
- Ylva Anna Maria Lindh
- different from
- Ann Linde
- P10632
- Anna Lindh
- cause of death
- stabbing
- name in native language
- Anna Lindh
- name
- Lindh i Grillby
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Encyclopedic overview
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003. A leading figure of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Lindh was a Member of the Riksdag representing Södermanland County from 1982 to 1985 and again from 1998 to 2003.
On 10 September 2003, four days before a referendum on replacing the Swedish krona with the euro as currency, Lindh was stabbed by Mijailo Mijailović at the NK department store in central Stockholm; she died the following morning at Karolinska University Hospital. She had been seen as a likely candidate to succeed Göran Persson as Social Democratic party leader.
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