Magnus Nilssen
Magnus Nilssen | |
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President of the Lagting | |
In office 1 January 1919 – 31 December 1921 | |
Preceded by | Andreas Kristian Andersen Grimsø |
Succeeded by | Gunder A. Jahren |
Leader of the Social Democratic Labour Party | |
In office 1921–1927 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
In office 1 January 1928 – 4 December 1945 | |
Constituency | Oslo |
In office 1 January 1907 – 31 December 1921 | |
Constituency | Kristiania |
Party Secretary for the Labour Party | |
In office 1901–1918 | |
Leader | Christian H. Knudsen Christopher Hornsrud Oscar Nissen |
Preceded by | Olav Strøm (1894) |
Succeeded by | Martin Tranmæl |
Personal details | |
Born | Sweden-Norway | 18 July 1871
Died | 20 November 1947 Oslo, Norway | (aged 76)
Political party | Labour Social Democratic Labour |
Spouse |
Inga Marie Ravneberg
(m. 1897) |
Magnus Nilssen (18 July 1871 – 20 November 1947) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties.
He was born in Lillehammer as a son of shoemaker Mathias Nilssen (1834–1920) and his wife Eline Pedersen (1835–1918).[1] He was a first cousin of Marcus Halfdan Kastrud.[2] He finished his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in 1889, and moved to Kristiania in the same year. He was a secretary in his local trade union from 1891 to 1892 and treasurer in 1893. He was also member of the socialist youth club Friheden in both Kristiania and Sarpsborg (where he lived in 1894). He started his own goldsmith business in 1897. In November the same year he married Inga Marie Ravneberg.[1]
He joined the
Nilssen was a member of Kristiania (Oslo) city council from 1902 to 1910, 1914 to 1919 and 1926 to 1928.
He left as deputy leader in 1939, and left the central board in 1945. His last term in Parliament ended in 1945—de facto with a hiatus from 1940 to 1945, when
Nilssen was a member of the supervisory committee of the Gjøvik Line from 1908 to 1919, and of the supervisory council of Norges Brannkasse. He was a school board member in Oslo from 1910 to 1922 and 1929 to 1937, and a board member of the Norwegian State Railways from 1922 and Oslo Hospital from 1933. He was a deputy board member of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture from 1938 to 1940, and a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1922 to 1940.[2]
Nilssen died in November 1947 in Oslo.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Terjesen, Einar A. "Magnus Nilssen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Magnus Nilssen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ISBN 82-00-12863-6.
- ISBN 82-10-02753-0.
- ^ Maurseth, 1987: pp. 431–432
- ISBN 978-82-307-0002-0.
- ^ Berntsen, 2006: p. 104