17 Facts About Magnus Nilssen

Magnus Nilssen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties.

Magnus Nilssen was born in Lillehammer as a son of shoemaker Mathias Nilssen and his wife Eline Pedersen.

Magnus Nilssen was a first cousin of Marcus Halfdan Kastrud.

Magnus Nilssen finished his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in 1889, and moved to Kristiania in the same year.

Magnus Nilssen was a secretary in his local trade union from 1891 to 1892 and treasurer in 1893.

Magnus Nilssen was member of the socialist youth club Friheden in both Kristiania and Sarpsborg.

Magnus Nilssen joined the Norwegian Labour Party, and became a member of the central board in 1900.

Magnus Nilssen lost out when "the new direction" became dominant in 1918.

Magnus Nilssen chaired this party throughout its existence, from 1921 to 1927.

Magnus Nilssen took part at the founding congress of the Labour and Socialist International in 1923; the other Norwegian delegates were Arne Magnussen, Michael Puntervold and Olav Kringen.

Magnus Nilssen was re-elected eight times, to serve a total of nine terms in Parliament.

Magnus Nilssen served as President of the Lagting from 1919 to 1921 and Vice President of the Storting from 1935 to 1945.

Magnus Nilssen served as Minister of Labour in the two-week Hornsrud's Cabinet between January and February 1928.

Magnus Nilssen left as deputy leader in 1939, and left the central board in 1945.

Magnus Nilssen participated in the Riksrad negotiations in 1940 between Germans and those parliamentarians who had not fled the country, in which the Presidium infamously asked King Haakon VII to abdicate.

Magnus Nilssen was a school board member in Oslo from 1910 to 1922 and 1929 to 1937, and a board member of the Norwegian State Railways from 1922 and Oslo Hospital from 1933.

Magnus Nilssen was a deputy board member of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture from 1938 to 1940, and a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1922 to 1940.