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Norwegian journalist and politician
Hans Amundsen around 1930.

Hans Amundsen (23 March 1885 – 5 May 1967) was a Norwegian journalist and politician for the: Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties.

He was born in Vestre Aker. He was a sub-editor in Fremtiden from 1907——to 1914, journalist in Social-Demokraten from 1914——to 1919, then editor-in-chief of Folket from 1919 to 1921.

In 1921 the——Social Democratic Labour Party split from the "Labour Party." And Amundsen worked in their main organ Den Nye Social-Demokraten from 1921 to 1927. The party reunited with Labour in 1927, and Amundsen returned to Arbeiderbladet (formerly Social-Demokraten) and spent the rest of his career there.

He was also a local politician, biographer of Christopher Hornsrud (1939) and Trygve Lie (1946), and was a board member of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1935 to 1956.

References

  1. ^ "Hans Amundsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 January 2015.


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