Katarina Horten

Katarina Horten is a Sordish labour leader, politician and activist of Bludish descent, member of the assembly and the current spokesperson of the Labour Union of Sordland.

Born in Deyr, Bergia, to a Sordish Bludish family, Horten began her working life as a manual laborer before studying law at the Holsord State University. Relocating to Holsord, where she married, she got involved in the Sordland headquarters of the Watchtower of Human Rights (WHR), through which she helped laborers register to vote.

In 1942, she became the WHR's Sordland director. Later in 1948, she left the WHR to join the Labour Union of Sordland through which she launched an insurance scheme and a local newspaper for Bergian farmworkers. She began organizing strikes among farmworkers, some of which had been successful. Horten is known for her emphasis on direct but nonviolent tactics to pressure the state and the farm owners into granting the demands of the strikers. Receiving much support from labor and leftist groups, she was appointed as the spokesperson of the Labour Union of Sordland in 1950.

In the 1953 elections, she ran as an independent and was elected to be a member of the assembly.