Jeanette Olsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jeanette Olsen

Norwegian politician and editor

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1873

Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 23-Sep-1959

Profession: politician, contributing editor

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jeanette Olsen

  • Jeanette Martine Olsen (22 October 1873 – 23 September 1959) was a Norwegian editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. She was born in Kristiania.
  • Her first political position was as leader of the local women's branch in Skien Labour Party from 1907 to 1912.
  • From 1911 to 1913 she was a national board member of the Labour Party women's association.
  • She was also a board member of the county branch in Bratsberg.
  • In 1913 she was hired as manager of the newspaper Haugesunds Folkeblad, and she became editor-in-chief in the same year.The family moved to Tromsø in 1914, where she became manager in Nordlys and then secretary of Nord-Norsk Fiskerforbund from 1917 to 1919.
  • She was also a member of Tromsø city council from 1916 to 1919.
  • In 1919 she was hired as manager in Fremover, and sat for some time as a member of Narvik city council.
  • While living in Northern Norway she was also involved in smuggling from the Russian SFSR.She was a national board member of the Labour Party from 1918 to 1923, and was a delegate at the Third Comintern Congress in 1921, but in September 1923 she was excluded for half a year for writing an "open letter" to Martin Tranmæl, in which she stated that if not Tranmæl subordinated himself to Comintern, he would pave way for Fascism.
  • Before the exclusion was lifted, the Communist Party had formed as a splinter party, and she joined it.
  • From 1923 to 1928 she led the women's secretariat in the party, succeeding Olga Andersen in that position.
  • She was a delegate at the Fifth Comintern Congress, and also edited the party's magazine for women, Gnisten, from 1925.
  • In 1928 she resigned her party membership, together with high-profile politicians Emil Stang, Jr.
  • and Olav Scheflo, since the Communist Party was against the formation of Hornsrud's Cabinet.
  • She joined the Revolusjonære fagopposisjon, ClartĂ© and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
  • She rejoined the Communist Party in 1936, but was excluded after three months (in September) for defending Lev Trotsky.
  • She was now a Trotskyist, and edited the periodical Oktober from April 1937 to September 1939.
  • She also worked as a seamstress.She was married to Aksel Olsen (1869–1928), and had seven children.
  • She died in September 1959 in Oslo.

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