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Trygve Bratteli

26th Prime Minister of Norway

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26th Prime Minister of Norway

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nameTrygve Bratteli
imageTrygve Bratteli (5Fo30141709010076).jpg
captionBratteli in 1971
officePrime Minister of Norway
monarchOlav V
term_start16 October 1973
term_end15 January 1976
predecessorLars Korvald
successorOdvar Nordli
<!-- -->monarch1Olav V
term_start117 March 1971
term_end118 October 1972
predecessor1Per Borten
successor1Lars Korvald
<!-- -->office2President of the Nordic Council
term_start21 June 1978
term_end217 September 1978
predecessor2V. J. Sukselainen
successor2Olof Palme
<!-- -->office3Leader of the Labour Party
term_start31965
term_end31975
deputy3Reiulf Steen
predecessor3Einar Gerhardsen
successor3Reiulf Steen
<!-- -->office4Minister of Finance
primeminister4Einar Gerhardsen
term_start428 December 1956
term_end423 April 1960
predecessor4Mons Lid
successor4Petter Jakob Bjerve
<!-- -->primeminister5Oscar Torp
term_start519 November 1951
term_end522 January 1955
predecessor5Olav Meisdalshagen
successor5Mons Lid
<!-- -->office6Minister of Transport and Communications
primeminister6Einar Gerhardsen
term_start625 September 1963
term_end620 January 1964
predecessor6Lars Leiro
successor6Erik Himle
<!-- -->primeminister7Einar Gerhardsen
term_start723 April 1960
term_end728 August 1963
predecessor7Kolbjørn Varmann
successor7Lars Leiro
<!-- -->office8Member of the Norwegian Parliament
constituency8Oslo
deputy8Hjalmar Larsen
Omar Gjesteby
Gunnar Alf Larsen
Trygve Bull
Thorbjørn Berntsen
term_start81 January 1950
term_end830 September 1981
<!-- -->birth_nameTrygve Martin Bratteli
birth_date
birth_placeNøtterøy, Vestfold, Norway
death_date
death_placeOslo, Norway
nationalityNorwegian
partyLabour
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alma_materUniversity of Oslo
spouseRandi Larssen (1924–2002)
signatureTrygve Bratteli signature.svg

Omar Gjesteby Gunnar Alf Larsen Trygve Bull Thorbjørn Berntsen Trygve Martin Bratteli (11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, a politician with the Norwegian Labour Party, and Nazi concentration camp survivor. He served as the prime minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1973 to 1976. He was president of the Nordic Council in 1978.

Background

Bratteli was born on the island of Nøtterøy at Færder in Vestfold, Norway. His parents were Terje Hansen Bratteli (1878–1966) and Martha Barmen (1880–1938). He attended school locally, having many jobs including: work in fishing, as a coal miner and on a building site. Over a 9- to 10-month period, Bratteli travelled with whalers to Antarctica, where he worked in a guano factory at South Georgia Island. He was a student at the socialist school at Malmøya in 1933. Oscar Torp, chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party, asked him to become editor of Folkets Frihet in Kirkenes and later editor 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 Nazi invasion of Norway, the daily newspaper Arbeiderbladet was closed down during 1940 by Nazi officials. Bratteli subsequently participated in the Norwegian resistance movement. He was arrested by agents of Nazi Germany in 1942, and was a Nacht und Nebel prisoner of various German concentration camps; including Natzweiler-Struthof, from 1943 to 1945. He was also imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin. 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.

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 finance in Oscar Torp's cabinet, and from 1956 to 1960 in the third cabinet of Einar Gerhardsen. From 1960 to 1963, during Gerhardsen's third period as prime minister, he was 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 prime minister. In social policy, Bratteli's premiership saw the passage of a law in June 1972 that lowered the pension age to 67. Central to his political career was the question of Norway's membership of the European Community. Following the close rejection of membership in the 1972 referendum, his cabinet resigned. However, the successor cabinet Korvald only lasted one year, and the 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.

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). 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.

References

Other sources

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

Notes

  • Thirteen Norwegians died at Vaihingen and were buried in a mass grave, according to:

References

  1. Knut Are Tvedt. (21 March 2018). "Trygve Bratteli". Store norske leksikon.
  2. Tillack-Graf, Anne-Kathleen. (2012). "Erinnerungspolitik der DDR. Dargestellt an der Berichterstattung der Tageszeitung "Neues Deutschland" über die Nationalen Mahn- und Gedenkstätten Buchenwald, Ravensbrück und Sachsenhausen". Peter Lang.
  3. Egil Helle. "Trygve Bratteli". Norsk biografisk leksikon.
  4. Growth to limits: the Western European welfare states since World War 2: Volume 4 by Peter Flora
  5. (30 May 2011). "Trygve Bratteli, Prime Minister 1971–1972 and 1973–1976". Government.no.
  6. "Trygve Bratteli".
  7. "Randi Bratteli". Store norske leksikonGovernment.no.
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