Trygve Bratteli | |
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.jpg) Bratteli in 1971 | |
| Prime Minister of Norway | |
| In office 16 October 1973 – 15 January 1976 | |
| Monarch | Olav V |
| Preceded by | Lars Korvald |
| Succeeded by | Odvar Nordli |
| In office 17 March 1971 – 18 October 1972 | |
| Monarch | Olav V |
| Preceded by | Per Borten |
| Succeeded by | Lars Korvald |
| President of the Nordic Council | |
| In office 1 June 1978 – 17 September 1978 | |
| Preceded by | V. J. Sukselainen |
| Succeeded by | Olof Palme |
| Leader of the Labour Party | |
| In office 1965–1975 | |
| Deputy | Reiulf Steen |
| Preceded by | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Succeeded by | Reiulf Steen |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 28 December 1956 – 23 April 1960 | |
| Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Preceded by | Mons Lid |
| Succeeded by | Petter Jakob Bjerve |
| In office 19 November 1951 – 22 January 1955 | |
| Prime Minister | Oscar Torp |
| Preceded by | Olav Meisdalshagen |
| Succeeded by | Mons Lid |
| Minister of Transport and Communications | |
| In office 25 September 1963 – 20 January 1964 | |
| Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Preceded by | Lars Leiro |
| Succeeded by | Erik Himle |
| In office 23 April 1960 – 28 August 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Preceded by | Kolbjørn Varmann |
| Succeeded by | Lars Leiro |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
| In office 1 January 1950 – 30 September 1981 | |
| Deputy | Hjalmar Larsen Omar Gjesteby Gunnar Alf Larsen Trygve Bull Thorbjørn Berntsen |
| Constituency | Oslo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Trygve Martin Bratteli (1910-01-11)11 January 1910 |
| Died | 20 November 1984(1984-11-20) (aged 74) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Randi Larssen (1924–2002) |
| Children | 3, includingOla Bratteli |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
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Trygve Martin Bratteli (11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984) was aNorwegian newspaper editor, apolitician with theNorwegian Labour Party, andNazi concentration camp survivor. He served as theprime minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1973 to 1976. He was president of theNordic Council in 1978.[1]
Bratteli was born on the island ofNøtterøy atFærder inVestfold, 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 toAntarctica, where he worked in a guano factory atSouth Georgia Island. He was a student at the socialist school atMalmøya in 1933.Oscar Torp, chairman of theNorwegian Labour Party, asked him to become editor ofFolkets Frihet inKirkenes and later editor ofArbeiderungdommen which was published by theSocialist Youth League of Norway. For a period during 1940, he also served as Secretary of theNorwegian Labour Party.
Following theNazi invasion of Norway, the daily newspaperArbeiderbladet was closed down during 1940 by Nazi officials. Bratteli subsequently participated in theNorwegian resistance movement. He was arrested by agents ofNazi Germany in 1942, and was aNacht und Nebel prisoner of various Germanconcentration camps; includingNatzweiler-Struthof, from 1943 to 1945. He was also imprisoned in theSachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin.[2] He was liberated fromVaihingen an der Enz concentration camp on 5 April 1945, by the Swedish Red CrossWhite Buses along with fifteen other Norwegians who had survived.[3]
After the liberation of Norway in 1945, Bratteli was appointed as secretary of the Labour Party. He became chairman of theWorkers' Youth League, vice chairman of the party, served on the newly formeddefence commission, and in 1965; was made chairman of the Labour Party. Bratteli was elected to theNorwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1950, and was re-elected on seven occasions.
He was appointed asminister of finance inOscar Torp's cabinet, and from 1956 to 1960 in the third cabinet ofEinar Gerhardsen. From 1960 to 1963, during Gerhardsen's third period as prime minister, he wasminister 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 becameprime minister. In social policy, Bratteli's premiership saw the passage of a law in June 1972 that lowered the pension age to 67.[4] Central to his political career was the question of Norway's membership of theEuropean Community. Following the close rejection of membership in the1972 referendum, his cabinet resigned. However, the successorcabinet Korvald only lasted one year, and thesecond cabinet Bratteli was formed following the1973 Norwegian parliamentary election. Bratteli resigned as prime minister in January 1976 on the grounds of ill health. He was succeeded by fellow Labour memberOdvar Nordli.[5]
Trygve Bratteli was married toRandi Helene Larssen (1924–2002). They had three children: two daughters, Tone and Marianne, and one son, professorOla 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 atVestre gravlund inOslo.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 inIsrael.[7]
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| Preceded by | Norwegian Minister of Finance 1951–1955 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Norwegian Minister of Finance 1956–1960 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | 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 |
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| Preceded by | Party secretary of theLabour Party 1945 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chairman of theWorkers' Youth League 1945–1946 (acting) | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chairman of theNorwegian Labour Party 1965–1975 | Succeeded by |
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