Trygve Bratteli

prime minister of Norway
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Also known as: Trygve Martin Bratteli
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In full:
Trygve Martin Bratteli
Born:
January 11, 1910, Nøtterøy, Norway
Died:
November 20, 1984, Oslo (aged 74)

Trygve Bratteli (born January 11, 1910, Nøtterøy, Norway—died November 20, 1984, Oslo) was a politician, chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party (1965–75), and prime minister of Norway in 1971–72 and 1973–76. Entering the Labour Party’s youth organization in 1928, Bratteli became editor of the newspaper Arbeiderungdommen (“Labour Youth”) in the 1930s and served as secretary of the organization until 1940 and as its chairman in 1945–46. From 1940 to 1942, during the early years of the German occupation of Norway in World War II, he participated in the Resistance. He was arrested and spent the rest of the war in ...(100 of 200 words)