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Place of Birth: Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
About Aud Gustad
- Aud Solveig Gustad, née Lund Olsen (1 May 1917 – 30 April 2000) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Communist and Socialist Left parties. She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of worker Jens Valdemar Lund Olsen (1894–1970) and cleaner Jenny Oline Emilie Hansen (1896–1966).
- She was active in the Norwegian communists' pioneer movement from 1930, and from 1935 to 1939 she was active in the Young Communist League of Norway.
- She finished her secondary education at Trondheim Cathedral School in 1937 and started as a journalist in Ny Tid in the same year.
- After a stint as telephone worker from 1938 until 1944 she briefly returned to Ny Tid in 1945.
- The Second World War was over, and she briefly served in the Communist Party women's committee.In 1939 she had married worker Helge Kristian Gustad.
- She left the workforce for some years, but was hired as a receptionist in Phoenix Hotell in 1951.
- In 1955 she went on to become a bookkeper for Bladcentralen.
- Here she was elected as the local union leader (Union of Employees in Commerce and Offices) in 1961.
- From 1969 to 1970 she changed job to assistant at the Social School, and chaired the Trondheim branch of the progressive women's league Norsk Kvinneforbund.
- From 1970 to 1977 she was a secretary in the Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organization regionally.In the 1971 Norwegian local elections Gustad was elected as a deputy member of Trondheim city council; and full member in 1975.
- In the meantime she had become a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag, elected in 1973.
- After a little less than two years, the regular representative Kai Øverland died and Gustad replaced him.
- He took a seat in the Standing Committee on Standing Committee on Social Affairs.In 1977 she withdrew from electoral politics to move to Oslo and work as a secretary for the Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organization nationwide.
- From 1984 to 1991 she was a board member of the Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Disabled People.
- However, she served as a bnational board member of the Socialist Left Party from 1979 to 1981 and member of their committee on social policy from 1979 to 1983.
- She was also a deputy board member of Postverket from 1977 to 1981.
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