Ole Colbjørnsen

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Ole Colbjørnsen

Ole Colbjørnsen (30 May 1897,

Labour Party
politician.

Early life and career

He was born in

Norwegian Labour Party while studying, and became involved in politics.[2] He identified as a communist, and became interested in working for the Soviet Union.[1] From 1921 he worked in the state news agency Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA), and from 1922 to 1928 he worked with trade and finance for the Soviet Union. Eventually he worked with organizing and preparing the first five-year plan.[2] From 1929 to 1931 he headed a shipping company based in London, working with Soviet timber exports.[1]

Career in Norway

In 1931 he returned to Norway.

bourgeois.[4]

In 1935, the Labour Party prevailed and formed a

Parliament of Norway, representing the constituency Oslo,[2] and he met on a regular basis because Oscar Torp was a cabinet member.[1] He was one of the most pro-military politicians in the Labour Party before 1940.[6]

In the late 1930s he repeatedly nominated Mahatma Gandhi for the Nobel peace prize, which never was awarded to him. [1]

Colbjørnsen had to leave Norway when

Norwegian embassy in Washington, D.C. In 1946 he was a delegate and in 1947 an advisor in the United Nations General Assembly, and in 1947 he participated in the United Nations Economic and Social Council assembly.[2] He became a supporter of Norwegian membership in NATO.[1]

Colbjørnsen returned to Norway in November 1948 to become acting director of the Direktoratet for økonomisk forsvarsberedskap,[1] a directorate which does not exist anymore.[7] After a period there led a quiet life. He had married Veslemøy Ihlen Larssen in 1936, and was a son-in-law of Olav Johan Sopp. He died in November 1973 in Oslo.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hirsti, Reidar. "Ole Colbjørnsen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Ole Colbjørnsen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 11 December 2009.
  3. ^ Helle, Knut (ed.). "Edv Bull". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
  4. ISBN 82-521-5187-6
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  5. ^ See also Furre, 2000: pp. 86–89
  6. ^ Lundestad, Svein (1974). Arbeiderpartiet og forsvaret 1935–1939 (in Norwegian). Oslo: University of Oslo. p. 47.
  7. Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Archived from the original
    on 2012-05-27. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
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