Education
Wellin was educated as a nurse at the Sophiahemmet in Stockholm.
nurse politician Member of the Riksdag
Wellin was educated as a nurse at the Sophiahemmet in Stockholm.
She belonged to the first women to have been elected into the Swedish parliament. She was also on the board of several of the medical centers in Stockholm, such as Sophiahemmet (1917). In 1921, she became one of the first five women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women suffrage alongside Nelly Thüring (Social Democrat), Agda Östlund (Social Democrat) and Elisabeth Tamm (liberal) in the Lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the Upper chamber.
In 1910 she became a member of the board of directors - from 1914 chairman - of Svensk sjuksköterskeförening (Swedish Nurses Association), a member of the board of directors in the Committee of Nordic Nurses Cooperation (1920) and was an editor of "Svensk sjukskötersketidning" (The Paper of the Swedish Nurse) from 1911. In 1912, she was elected to Stockholm City Council as a Conservative, and in 1919, she became a member of the Public Health Care.
