Gerda Höjer

Gerda Höjer was a Swedish nurse and Liberal People's Party politician who led her profession's national association for fifteen years. She was born in 1893 and died in 1974. She served as president of the Swedish Association of Nurses from 1945 to 1960, and in 1947 she was also president of the International Council of Nurses. From 1949 to 1960 she sat in the second chamber of the Riksdag, where she concentrated on social questions, above all health and medical care policy. After the Second World War the International Committee of the Red Cross awarded her the Florence Nightingale Medal. Her career joined leadership of the nursing profession in its national and international associations with work on health care policy in the Swedish parliament.