12 Facts About Anders Buen

Anders Johnsen Buen was a Norwegian typographer, newspaper editor, trade unionist and politician.

Anders Buen belonged to the Norwegian Labour Party from the start, being party secretary as well as editor of the party organs Social-Demokraten and Ny Tid, but politically he was described as a "reformist pragmatic", and was thus a member of the breakaway Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway from 1921 to 1927.

Anders Buen then educated himself, and worked, as a typographer.

In 1885, Anders Buen was among the founders of the association Socialdemokratisk Forening.

The association took control over the newspaper Vort Arbeide, founded in 1884 by Christian Holtermann Knudsen, and Anders Buen was hired there as a journalist.

Anders Buen was appointed editor-in-chief of Social-Demokraten in 1900, and as this was the main organ for the Labour Party, Anders Buen became party secretary as well.

Anders Buen chaired his local trade union from 1897 to 1898, and served one term in Kristiania city council from 1901 to 1903.

Anders Buen served as a member of Trondhjem city council from 1907 to 1910 and from 1913 to his death.

Anders Buen was elected to the first session of the Norwegian Parliament in 1906,1909,1912,1915 and 1918, representing the single-member constituency of Lademoen.

Anders Buen led the Labour Party parliamentary group from 1913 to 1921, and from 1919 to 1921 he served as President of the Storting.

Anders Buen, described as a "reformist pragmatic", joined the Social Democratic Labour Party.

Anders Buen managed the local branch of Norges Bank from 1916 to his death in 1933 and had been a member of the board of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate from 1921 to 1923.