Idar Norstrand
Idar Olav Norstrand (* 14. February 1915 in Bergen , Hordaland , † 8. September 1986 ) was a Norwegian trade union functionary and politician of Arbeiderpartiet , among others, from 1964 to 1965 Minister of wages and prices in the government Gerhardsen IV was.
Life
Norstrand, son of fire chief Mikal Norstrand and Karoline Ingebrigtsen Hilland, worked as a postman in Bergen from 1934 to 1941 after attending school. At the same time, he began his political commitment at the end of the 1930s and between 1938 and 1940 was both chairman of the youth association of the Arbeiderpartiet AUF ( Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking ) in Bergen and at the same time secretary of the board of the local Arbeiderpartiet. Due to his activities in the underground movement during the German occupation of Norway , he fled to Sweden in 1941 , where he was department head at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm until 1945 .
After the end of the Second World War , Norstrand returned to Norway and was chairman of the postal union (Norsk Postforbund) between 1946 and 1951 . He then headed the secretariat of the State Employees' Union (Statstjenestemannskartellet) from 1951 to 1957 and also chaired the Union of Trade Union Officials (Norsk Funksjonærsamband) between 1953 and 1957 , before he was head of the personnel department of the postal administration from 1957 to 1982. In addition to this full-time occupation, he was involved between 1961 and 1963 as chairman of the cooperation committee for cooperation between pension and social security institutions.
During a government reshuffle on January 20, 1964, Norstrand was appointed by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen as Minister for Wages and Prices (Lønns- og prisminister) in his fourth government and held this office until the end of Gerhardsen's term of office on October 12, 1965.
Later Norstrand was from 1967 to 1971 chairman of the committee for the organization of the postal administration and between 1967 and 1974 chairman of the rationalization council of the postal administration. Most recently in 1975 he became a member of the State Wages Committee, of which he was a member until 1983.
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| SURNAME | Norstrand, Idar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Norstrand, Idar Olav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian politician (Arbeiderpartiet) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergen , Hordaland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1986 |