Gunnar Bråthen
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Gunnar Bråthen (7 October 1896 – 7 June 1980) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Pay and Prices from 1955 to 1959.
He was born in Hole as a son of a baker. He was a member of Kristiania city council from 1922 to 1925. He was a board member of the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers during the same period, and then a secretary from 1925 to 1931. After seven years in Hedmark faglige samorganisasjon he was a secretary in the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in Northern Norway from 1938 to 1941, and nationwide from 1945 to 1950.[1] Between 1941 and 1945 he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement. He was first arrested on 1 July 1941, and was imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from February 1942 to January 1943. He was arrested for a second time on 21 September 1944, imprisoned in Falstad concentration camp from November 1944 to January 1945, then in Grini concentration camp until the end of World War II.[2] From 1950 to 1963 he was the director of the Norwegian Directorate of Labour.[1]
He was a member of the central committee of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1957. From 1955 to 1959 he was the Minister of Pay and Prices, serving in Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet.[1]
Bråthen was a member of several public councils. He was also a board member of from 1946 to 1966, from 1952 to 1967 (chair from 1963 to 1967), Norsk Jernverk from 1963 to 1966, from 1965 to 1969 and Sydvaranger.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Gunnar Bråthen" (in Norwegian). Storting.
- ^ Ottosen, Kristian, ed. (2004). Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945 (in Norwegian) (2nd ed.). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 154. ISBN 82-15-00288-9.
- 1896 births
- 1980 deaths
- Norwegian trade unionists
- Directors of government agencies of Norway
- Politicians from Oslo
- Government ministers of Norway
- Labour Party (Norway) politicians
- Norwegian resistance members
- Grini concentration camp survivors
- Falstad concentration camp survivors
- Norwegian politician, 1890s birth stubs