Kirsten Hansteen
Kirsten Hansteen (born January 5, 1903 in Lyngen as Kirsten Moe, † November 17, 1974 ) was a Norwegian journalist and politician of the Norwegian Communist Party (NKP).
Life
Hansteen was the wife and later widow of the lawyer, trade union official and politician Harald Viggo Hansteen , who was sentenced to death and executed in September 1941 in response to the milk strike .
During the war she worked on the underground newspaper Kvinnefronten (Frauenfront). After the end of the war she became (as Norway's first female minister) a minister in the first unity government (coalition government under Einar Gerhardsen ). Her exact position was advisory minister in the Ministry of Social Affairs and she was entrusted with the task of helping the victims of the war. She was also a member of the Storting from 1945 to 1949 for Fylke Akershus .
Together with Henriette Bie Lorentzen , she founded the magazine Kvinnen og tiden (Woman and Time) in 1945 and published it until 1955.
Web links
- Biography on snl.no in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Storting biography (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norway under construction . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/1946
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hansteen, Kirsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian politician (NKP), member of the Storting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyngen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1974 |