Rakel Seweriin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rakel Seweriin

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1906

Place of Birth: Hof, Vestfold, Norway

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1995

Profession: politician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Rakel Seweriin

  • Rakel Seweriin, née Solberg (26 June 1906 – 17 September 1995) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
  • She was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs from 1953 to 1955. She was born in Hof as a daughter of Casper Fredrik Solberg (1870–1932) and Zefra Eliagna Natterstad (1871–1949).
  • She grew up in Eidsfoss, where her father managed Eidsfoss Station.
  • Her mother was a hotelier.
  • She commenced her studies in 1926, and took courses as a stenographer in 1927 and 1928.
  • From 1929 she worked as a stenographer, in 1942 she left Norway due to World War II.
  • She and her husband had been active members of the Norwegian resistance movement, among others starting the illegal newspaper Fri Fagbevegelse.
  • She continued her work abroad, as a stenographer for the exiled Norwegian High Command in London.
  • She was also a member of the program council of the exiled part of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, from 1943 to 1945.Seweriin had been a member of Oslo city council from 1937 until the war broke out, and also served briefly in 1945.
  • She was the deputy leader of the Workers' Youth League from 1937 to 1946.
  • After the war she was a member of the Labour Party secretariat for women from 1945 to 1971—from 1953 to 1963 she chaired the secretariat, and was a member of the Labour Party's central committee.
  • She was elected as a member of the Parliament of Norway in 1945 from the constituency Oslo, and was re-elected in 1949, 1953, 1957, 1961 and 1965.
  • On 2 November 1953, she temporarily stepped out of parliament as she became Minister of Social Affairs in Torp's Cabinet.
  • She had worked with social policy as a parliamentarian, but in an interview with Trond Nordby she confessed to having lacked a clear purpose with her position as Minister of Social Affairs.
  • Legislative work in the ministry slowed down, and as leader of the ministry she was clearly dominated by the bureaucrat staff, especially Karl Evang.
  • She continued as Minister of Social Affairs until 1 August 1955, a few months after the formation of Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet.
  • During this time, her seat in parliament was filled by Hjalmar Larsen, Aase Lionæs and Gunnar Alf Larsen.
  • When she stepped down in 1969, her time of 24 years as a parliament member was a record for a woman in Norway.Seweriin was also a member of the board of the Norwegian Directorate of Labour from 1947 to 1953 and 1955 to 1967, and of the Norwegian National Opera from 1957.
  • She was a member of several public committees, among others commenting on existing laws.
  • From 1963 to 1971 she chaired Landslaget for sprÃ¥klig samling.Rakel Seweriin was married twice, first to teacher, journalist and writer Ernst Samuel Sørensen (1903–1972), then, from 1937, to physician Alf Christian Seweriin (1909–1961).
  • She died in September 1995 in Oslo.

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