20 Facts About Trygve Bratteli

Trygve Martin Bratteli was a Norwegian newspaper editor, a politician with the Norwegian Labour Party, and Nazi concentration camp survivor.

Trygve Bratteli served as the prime minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1973 to 1976.

Trygve Bratteli was president of the Nordic Council in 1978.

Trygve Bratteli's parents were Terje Hansen Bratteli and Martha Barmen.

Trygve Bratteli attended school locally, having many jobs including: work in fishing, as a coal miner and on a building site.

Over a 9- to 10-month period, Trygve Bratteli travelled with whalers to Antarctica, where he worked in a guano factory at South Georgia Island.

Trygve Bratteli was arrested by agents of Nazi Germany in 1942, and was a Nacht und Nebel prisoner of various German concentration camps; including Natzweiler-Struthof, from 1943 to 1945.

Trygve Bratteli was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin.

Trygve Bratteli was liberated from Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp on 5 April 1945, by the Swedish Red Cross White Buses along with fifteen other Norwegians who had survived.

Trygve Bratteli became chairman of the Workers' Youth League, vice chairman of the party, served on the newly formed defence commission, and in 1965; was made Chairman of the Labour Party.

Trygve Bratteli was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1950, and was re-elected on seven occasions.

Trygve Bratteli was appointed as Minister of Finance in Oscar Torp's cabinet, and from 1956 to 1960 in the third cabinet of Einar Gerhardsen.

In September 1963, when Gerhardsen's fourth cabinet was formed, Trygve Bratteli was again made Minister of Transport and Communications, a post he held until 1964.

The centre-right cabinet of Borten held office from 1965 to 1971, but when it collapsed, Trygve Bratteli became Prime Minister.

In social policy, Trygve Bratteli's premiership saw the passage of a law in June 1972 that lowered the pension age to 67.

However, the successor cabinet Korvald only lasted one year, and the second cabinet Trygve Bratteli was formed following the 1973 Norwegian parliamentary election.

Trygve Bratteli resigned as prime minister in January 1976 on the grounds of ill health.

Trygve Bratteli was succeeded by fellow Labour member Odvar Nordli.

Trygve Bratteli died in 1984 and was buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo.

Trygve Bratteli was a member of Friends of Israel within the Norwegian Labour Movement which planted a forest to his memory in Israel.