Martin Gunnar Knutsen
Martin Gunnar Knutsen | |
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| Chairman of the Communist Party of Norway | |
| In office 1975–1982 | |
| Preceded by | Reidar T. Larsen |
| Succeeded by | Hans I. Kleven |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 September 1918 Skien, Telemark, Norway |
| Died | 23 February 2001 (aged 82) |
| Awards | Order of Friendship of Peoples |
Martin Gunnar Knutsen (29 September 1918 – 23 February 2001) was a Norwegian politician, chairman of the Communist Party of Norway (NKP) 1975–1982.
Knutsen was born in Skien.[1] He was active in the resistance during the German occupation of Norway. While being a teaching student he published the clandestine bulletin Fritt fram (Norwegian for "Freely forward"). Knutsen, along with a group of colleagues, was arrested in 1944 and Fritt fram ceased publication.[2] He edited the newspaper Vardø Framtid from 1949 to 1950.
During the 1950s he stayed in Moscow, and worked as a newsreader for the Norwegian-language broadcasts of Radio Moscow. On 5 March 1953 he was the first to read out the news of the death of Joseph Stalin to a Norwegian audience.[3]
Knutsen headed the orthodox group inside NKP, which resisted the moves by the party chairman
Knutsen was a recipient of the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples.[10] He stepped down from the NKP chairmanship in 1982.[11] Knutsen left NKP in September 1990, after five decades of membership in the party.[12]
He met his wife Nina in 1977, a translator and teacher from Zlatoust.[13] He died in 2001.[1]
References
- ^ Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ Luihn, Hans. Den frie hemmelige pressen i Norge under okkupasjonen 1940–45: en fortellende bibliografi. Oslo: National Library of Norway, 1999. p. 64
- ^ NRK. Tyrannens død
- ^ Gilberg, Trond. Coalition Strategies of Marxist Parties. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1989. p. 93
- ^ Banks, Arthur S., and William Overstreet. Political Handbook of the World, 1981: Governments, Regional Issues and Intergovernmental Organization As of 1 January 1981. New York: McGraw-Hill for the Centre for Social Analysis of the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Council on Foreign Relations, 1981. p. 371
- ^ Communisme, Eds. 9–12. Presses universitaires de France, 1986. p. 144
- ^ "Martin Gunnar Knutsen" (in Norwegian). Storting.
- ^ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. Stortingsvalget 1977. Hefte I." (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
- ^ Einhorn, Eric S., and John Logue. Modern Welfare States: Scandinavian Politics and Policy in the Global Age. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2003. p. 358
- ^ Steenstrup, Bjørn. Hvem er hvem? 1979, Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget, 1979, p. 351.
- ^ Notes et études documentaires, Eds. 4721–4730. La Documentation française, 1983. p. 253
- ^ Staar, Richard Felix, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, and Lewis H. Gann. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1991. p. 619 (Yearbook on International Communist Affairs series)
- ^ NRK. Atomoffer – uten å vite
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