Fredrik Monsen
President of the Storting
In office
10 December 1945 – 10 January 1949
MonarchHaakon VII
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Vice PresidentGustav Natvig-Pedersen
Preceded byC. J. Hambro
Succeeded byGustav Natvig-Pedersen
Minister of Defence
In office
20 March 1935 – 22 December 1939
Prime MinisterJohan Nygaardsvold
Preceded byJens Isak Kobro
Succeeded byBirger Ljungberg
In office
28 January 1928 – 15 February 1928
Prime MinisterChristopher Hornsrud
Preceded byIngolf E. Christensen
Succeeded byTorgeir Anderssen-Rysst
Personal details
Born
Christian Fredrik Monsen

(1878-04-27)27 April 1878
Kristiania, Sweden-Norway
Died31 January 1954(1954-01-31) (aged 75)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyNorwegian Communist Party (1923–1927)
Labour Party (1927–1954)
SpouseAasta Ingerø Hansen
ChildrenPer Monsen
Randi Monsen

Christian Fredrik Monsen (27 April 1878 – 31 January 1954) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party and the Communist Party.

History

He was born in Kristiania as a son of Ludvig Monsen (1854–1942) and Josefine Aurora Marcelie Dehn (1852–1942).[1]

Monsen edited the newspaper Demokraten from 1913 to 1916 and was a member of Hamar city council from 1907 to 1945, serving as mayor in 1916–1919. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from the Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties in 1922, and was re-elected on six occasions. He represented the Labour Party, except for the term 1925–1927 when he represented the Communist Party. During his last term, from December 10, 1945 to January 10, 1949, he was the President of the Storting.[2] Already before the 1945 election, when the old Parliament was convened, Monsen was installed in the Presidium as the Labour Party dropped their former member of the presidium Magnus Nilssen.[3]

Monsen headed the Ministry of Defence during the short-lived Hornsrud's Cabinet in 1928 and then during Nygaardsvold's Cabinet. Unusually for a Minister of Defence, Monsen was an antimilitarist and wrote three anti-militarist pamphlets (Sannheten om militærvesenet, Avvæbning eller militarisme and Militært vanvidd eller civil fornuft).[2]

References

  1. ^ Pryser, Tore. "Fredrik Monsen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Fredrik Monsen" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  3. ^ Berntsen, Harald (2006). Statsministerkuppet [The prime ministerial coup] (in Norwegian). Oslo: Centrum. p. 105. ISBN 978-82-307-0002-0.
Political offices Preceded byIngolf Elster Christensen Norwegian Minister of Defence January 1928–February 1928 Succeeded byTorgeir Anderssen-Rysst Preceded byJens Isak de Lange Kobro Norwegian Minister of Defence 1935–1939(Oscar Torp acting 1935–1936) Succeeded byBirger Ljungberg Preceded byCarl Joachim Hambro President of the Storting 1945–1949 Succeeded byGustav Natvig-Pedersen


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