Niels Ødegaard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Niels Ødegaard

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1892

Place of Birth: Gjøvik, Oppland, Norway

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: politician, contributing editor

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Niels Ødegaard

  • Niels Ødegaard (25 September 1892 – 1976) was a Norwegian educator, newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born in Gjøvik as a son of shoemaker Anton Ødegaard (1865–1931) and his wife Pauline Josefine Nielsen (1863–1943).
  • He started his working career in a printing press from 1906 to 1909 and then as an office clerk for O.
  • Mustad & Søn from 1909 to 1911.
  • He then studied and graduated from Elverum Teachers' College in 1913, and was hired as a school teacher in Gjøvik.
  • He also worked as a substitute teacher in Tyldalen, Fluberg and Vardal.
  • From 1916 he chaired the local Labour Party chapter.
  • In 1919 he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Ny Dag, He was also a member of Gjøvik city council from 1919, and served as mayor from 1922 to 1940.
  • He left Ny Dag in 1924, and from 1926 to 1940 he was the editor-in-chief of Opland Arbeiderblad.He also chaired Gjøvik's school board, and was deputy chair of the supervisory council of Kommunenes Filmcentral and Norsk Film.
  • He chaired several local companies: Gjøvik Støperi og Mekaniske Verksted, Gjøvik Skifabrik, Gjøvik Auto and Byggeleverandøren, and was a board member of Gumælius og Reklame and Gjøvik Bruk, as well as the Federation of Norwegian Industries.He was a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway in the terms 1925–1927, 1928–1930 and 1931–1933, representing the Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties.
  • In 1924 he was elected on the ballot of the Communist Party (which he had joined), but right after the election he gave up this party and rejoined the Labour Party.
  • He returned as local Labour chairman, serving until 1934.
  • He was elected as a full member of Parliament in 1933 and 1936.
  • His last term was ended by the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, during which he was also removed as mayor.
  • He instead became manager of the company Hunton Bruk, where he remained until 1961.
  • He returned as mayor after the Second World War, and sat from 1945 to 1967.
  • In total, he is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality.
  • He also spearheaded policies, branded "Ødegaardianism", that bore the characteristics of a mixed economy (i.e.
  • not really socialism).In 1967 he was proclaimed an honorary citizen of Gjøvik, and in 1972 a monument to him was unveiled in the city.
  • He died in 1976.

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