Mathilda Staël von Holstein

[1][2] She was born in Kristianstad as the daughter of the nobleman and Colonel Axel Staël von Holstein and Cecilia Nordenfeldt and grew up in Värmland.

She was a correspondent at a law firm, then an assistant and an accountant at the Stockholm City Health Board.

[4] One of the biggest problems for women to obtain government office during this time was that the law defined the applicant for such jobs as a "Swedish man".

The Ministry of Justice formed a committee in 1919 to investigate and remove this barrier from the law through a change of constitution.

Staël von Holstein was awarded the Illis quorum by the King of Sweden in 1946.