Gerhardsen, Einar

Gerhardsen, Einar

▪ prime minister of Norway
born May 10, 1897, Asker, Nor.
died Sept. 19, 1987, Lilleborg

      four-time prime minister of Norway (1945, 1945–51, 1955–63, 1963–65) and leader of the Norwegian Labour Party, who led his nation's postwar economic recovery program.

      The son of a Labour Party member, Gerhardsen joined the party during World War I and sided with its radical wing, which joined the Comintern (Third International) in 1919. After the party split from the Comintern in 1923, opposing central control from Moscow, he served as secretary of the Oslo Labour Party (1925–35) and as secretary of the national party (1934–45). A member of the Oslo Town Council from 1932 to 1945, he became mayor of the city in 1940.

      After working with the Home Front resistance group, which opposed the Nazi occupation, Gerhardsen was arrested by the Germans in September 1941, sent to a concentration camp, and later imprisoned in Oslo. Resuming his post as mayor of Oslo upon the end of the war in 1945, he became leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and was asked by King Haakon VII to form a coalition government.

      When the Labour Party scored a decisive victory in the fall elections of 1945, Gerhardsen continued as prime minister and won the support of all parties for his government's austerity and rebuilding program, which made substantial economic gains by 1949. Retirement pension (1956) and social welfare (1964) legislation was passed during his second and third administrations. He continued to serve in the Storting (parliament) after losing office in 1965. He retired from politics in 1972.

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