1. Margrethe Parm was a Norwegian Christian leader, teacher, scout leader and prison director.
17 Facts About Margrethe Parm
1. 2.
Juline Margrethe Parm was born on 18 October 1882 in Kristiania, the former name of the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
3.
Margrethe Parm was the daughter of Carl Olaf Parm and Helga Margrethe Johannesen.
4.
Margrethe Parm attended several schools in Oslo and then studied for a year at the University of Oslo before going to Denmark in 1903 to work as a governess for a Danish family, staying there until 1905.
5.
Margrethe Parm graduated as a teacher from the Hartvig Nissen School in 1910.
6.
Margrethe Parm then went to the US on a scholarship from the YWCA's World Federation, studying for a year at the YWCA America's secretarial school in New York City, graduating in 1916.
7.
When she returned to Norway, Margrethe Parm was employed as national secretary of the Norwegian Christian Youth Association, with the YWCA as her special area of responsibility.
8.
Margrethe Parm represented the YWCA on the Norwegian Women's National Council from 1919 to 1924.
9.
In 1920, Margrethe Parm believed that the time had come for a girl scout movement.
10.
Margrethe Parm herself became the "scout leader", although the job title was later changed to "country manager".
11.
Margrethe Parm was again on the committee from 1936 to 1940.
12.
Margrethe Parm remained involved with the scout movement for the rest of her life, although scout work was banned during German occupation of Norway in World War II.
13.
In 1946, Margrethe Parm was appointed director of Bredtveit Prison, a women's prison that had been used as a political prison by the Nasjonal Samling during German occupation.
14.
Margrethe Parm was involved in local government politics as a member of the Oslo City Council, representing the Christian People's Party.
15.
Margrethe Parm published a number of writings and books, among them a biography of Louise Isachsen, who was Norway's first female surgeon, who died in 1932.
16.
Margrethe Parm received the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1945.
17.
Margrethe Parm was buried at the Cemetery of Our Saviour in Oslo.