Trygve Bratteli

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Trygve Bratteli
26th
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office
25 September 1963 – 20 January 1964
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byLars Leiro
Succeeded byErik Himle
In office
23 April 1960 – 28 August 1963
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byKolbjørn Varmann
Succeeded byLars Leiro
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office
1 January 1950 – 30 September 1981
DeputyHjalmar Larsen
Omar Gjesteby
Gunnar Alf Larsen
Trygve Bull
Thorbjørn Berntsen
ConstituencyOslo
Personal details
Born
Trygve Martin Bratteli

(1910-01-11)11 January 1910
Nøtterøy, Vestfold, Norway
Died20 November 1984(1984-11-20) (aged 74)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyLabour
SpouseRandi Larssen (1924–2002)
Children3, including Ola Bratteli
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
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Trygve Martin Bratteli (11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984) was a

prime minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1973 to 1976. He was president of the Nordic Council
in 1978. [1]

Background

Bratteli was born on the island of

Arbeiderungdommen which was published by the Socialist Youth League of Norway. For a period during 1940, he also served as Secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party
.

Following the

Natzweiler-Struthof, from 1943 to 1945. He was also imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin.[2] He was liberated from Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp on 5 April 1945, by the Swedish Red Cross White Buses along with fifteen other Norwegians who had survived.[3]

Political career

After the liberation of Norway in 1945, Bratteli was appointed as Secretary of the Labour Party. He became chairman of the Workers' Youth League, vice chairman of the party, served on the newly formed defence commission, and in 1965; was made Chairman of the Labour Party. Bratteli was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1950, and was re-elected on seven occasions.

He was appointed as

Minister of Transport and Communications
. He was also acting Minister of Finance from January–February 1962. In September 1963, when Gerhardsen's fourth cabinet was formed, Bratteli was again made Minister of Transport and Communications, a post he held until 1964.

The centre-right cabinet of Borten held office from 1965 to 1971, but when it collapsed, Bratteli became

second cabinet Bratteli was formed following the 1973 Norwegian parliamentary election. Bratteli resigned as prime minister in January 1976 on the grounds of ill health. He was succeeded by fellow Labour member Odvar Nordli.[5]

Personal life

Trygve Bratteli was married to Randi Helene Larssen (1924–2002). They had three children: two daughters, Tone and Marianne, and one son, professor Ola Bratteli (1946–2015).[6] Bratteli's memoirs of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps was published in 1980. He died in 1984 and was buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo. Trygve Bratteli was a member of Friends of Israel within the Norwegian Labour Movement (Venner av Israel i Norsk Arbeiderbevegelse) which planted a forest to his memory in Israel.[7]

References

  1. ^ Knut Are Tvedt (21 March 2018). "Trygve Bratteli". Store norske leksikon. Archived from the original on 19 April 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
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  3. ^ Egil Helle. "Trygve Bratteli". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  4. ^ Growth to limits: the Western European welfare states since World War 2: Volume 4 by Peter Flora
  5. ^ "Trygve Bratteli, Prime Minister 1971–1972 and 1973–1976". Government.no. 30 May 2011. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  6. ^ "Trygve Bratteli". Archived from the original on 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  7. ^ "Randi Bratteli". Store norske leksikonGovernment.no. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

See also

Other sources

  • Anderson, Gidske (1984) Trygve Bratteli (Oslo: Gyldendal)

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Political offices
Preceded by Norwegian Minister of Finance
1951–1955
Succeeded by
Preceded by Norwegian Minister of Finance
1956–1960
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Kolbjørn Sigurd Werner Varmann
Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications

1960–1963
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications

1963–1964
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Norway
1971–1972
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Norway
1973–1976
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Party secretary of the
Labour Party

1945
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of the Workers' Youth League
1945–1946 (acting)
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of the
Norwegian Labour Party

1965–1975
Succeeded by