Nils Trædal

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Nils Trædal
Minister of Education and Church Affairs
In office 12 May 1931 – 3 March 1933
Prime Minister	Peder Kolstad Jens Hundseid
Preceded by	Sigvald Hasund
Succeeded by	Knut Liestøl
Leader of the Agrarian Party
In office 1938 – 12 October 1948
Preceded by	Jens Hundseid
Succeeded by	Einar Frogner
Personal details
Born	(1879-11-29)29 November 1879 Sunndal, Møre og Romsdal, Sweden-Norway
Died	12 October 1948(1948-10-12) (aged 68) Oslo, Norway
Political party	Agrarian
Spouse(s)	Gunda Amalie Ruth Holm ​ ​ (m. 1918)​

Nils Trædal (29 November 1879 – 12 October 1948) was a Norwegian cleric and politician for the agrarian party Bondepartiet (later renamed Centre Party) and leader of the party from 1938 to 1948. He was Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1931-1932 and 1932–1933, as well as acting Prime Minister and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1932.

Together with farmer and author Hans Seland and farmer union leader Hans Haga he was among the main agrarian party leaders to prevent the party from joining the fascist movement Nasjonal Samling, led by Vidkun Quisling.

He died after a fall from the second story of his home.^[1]

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