National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden)
The Hammarskjöld suggestion aroused anger among women's rights activists, who formed a support group for the Lindhagen motion.
[1] On 4 June 1902, Föreningen för Kvinnans Politiska Rösträtt (FKPR) was founded by among others Anna Whitlock, Lydia Wahlström and Signe Bergman.
Among the most notable and important single financiers of the Swedish suffrage movement were Lotten von Kræmer and Martina Bergman-Österberg.
The Swedish Society for Women's Suffrage regarded the more violent methods of the British Suffragettes to be non-constructive and did not wish to be associated with them, as they feared that this would erase all sympathy for the issue.
Because of this, the Swedish Society for Women's Suffrage thought it wise to reject this prejudice by recommending their members to try to dress femininely during their activism.
The LKPR primarily used the method of building opinion by using the press, making public speeches, handing out leaflets and by applying pressure on politicians and decision makers.
The society was chaired by Lydia Wahlström (conservative), Signe Bergman (social democrat), teacher Anna Whitlock and Ann-Margret Holmgren (liberal).
In practice, the political neutrality was abandoned by the resolution of 20 June 1911, when the LKPR decided to form a voters' boycott against all politicians opposing women's suffrage and support those in favor.
She participated in plays in the parts of Jenny Lind and Fredrika Bremer, and her novel Pennskaftet (novel) (1910), which spoke for love without marriage, became a controversial success in all society and referred to as the "bible of the Swedish suffrage movement".
The Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Stockholm in June 1911, has sometimes been referred to as the greatest triumph of the LKPR.
The congress was celebrated with a great parade through Stockholm, who stopped to greet its greatest benefactor, Lotten von Kræmer, on her balcony.
In connection to this, the male support group was founded who counted Carl Lindhagen, Ernst Beckman, Knut Wicksell, Mauritz Hellberg and Henrik Petrini among its members.
[6] Staff encouraged LKPR to present a support list to Parliament to silence the argument that women did not ask to vote themselves.
On 18 February, however, Agda Montelius was called to the Queen, Victoria of Baden, who demanded a stop to "the foolish presumption of women"[8] to be involved in politics.
King Gustav V of Sweden interrupted and said that women were of course entitled to present demands to the government, but that the situation made it difficult, and referred to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who warned them that such an action could damage Swedish neutrality.
The action was therefore silenced in both Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and the women involved placed the blame on Victoria of Baden.
In 1917 the LKPR wished to exploit the revolutionary atmosphere by presenting Prime Minister Carl Swartz with a demand for women's suffrage.
After the end of the World War I, the Government introduced its sweeping democratic reform program, which included women's suffrage.
In the end however, the decision was to dissolve the LKPR and transform it in to the Svenska kommittén för internationellt rösträttsarbete (SKIR) ('Swedish Comitté for International Suffrage') under the leadership of Anna Bugge-Wicksell, with the task to maintain the international contacts of the LKPR and its archives until it could be incorporated in to the SKM (the SKIR lasted until 1930).
