Anders Matias Abrahamsen Lothe (23 December 1875 – 1961) was a Norwegian teacher, newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. He was born at Lote in Gloppen as a son of farmers Abraham Jakobsen Lothe (1841–1919) and Johanne Marie Jensdotter Lothe (1840–1900). He finished Seljord Teachers' Seminary in 1896, when he was hired as a teacher in Gloppen. From 1900 to 1901 he went back to school, a private middle school in Gloppen, and took his examination at Tanks School in 1901. He then worked as a teacher in

Eikefjord Eikefjord is a former municipality in the Sunnfjord district in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1923 until 1964 when it joined Flora Municipality (now part of Kinn Municipality in Vestland county). The ...

from 1901 to 1908 and

Sparbu Sparbu is a village in the municipality of Steinkjer in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located about south of the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer. The European route E6 highway runs through the village as does the Nordlandsbanen ...

from 1908 to 1910. He became known as the first in Norway to write his middle school exam in Landsmål, and he also co-founded the Noregs Mållag branch ''Firda Mållag'' in 1899, chairing it from 1903 to 1908. From 1910 to 1915 he was the editor-in-chief of '. From 1915 to 1945 he was a primary school teacher in

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn, Vestland, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjorden. Florø is No ...

. He was elected to Florø city council in 1913, not-reelected in 1916 but then steadily re-elected to serve from 1919 to 1940. He was the deputy mayor of Florø in 1925–1926, 1936 and 1940. He was also a member of Florø school board from 1914 to 1917 and 1920 to 1927. He thus took part in the foundation of Firda Upper Secondary School in 1920, chairing its supervisory council from 1922 to 1933. Lothe also co-founded the

Sunnfjord Sunnfjord ( en, the southern fjord - in contrast to Nordfjord) is a traditional district in Western Norway located in Vestland county. It includes the municipalities of Askvoll, Fjaler, the southernmost parts of Kinn, Sunnfjord, and the souther ...

branch of IOGT as well as the Kinn and Sunnfjord branches of the Labour Party. He chaired the local party branch, as well as the county branch from 1928 to 1934. He was elected to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

from Sogn og Fjordane in

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

and

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

. The election in 1940 did not take place owing to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Lothe was arrested by the authorities in January 1943, incarcerated in Bergen Prison until February, then

Ulven concentration camp Ulven detention camp (German language, German: ''Polizeihäftlingslager Ulven,'' no, Ulven fangeleir ("''Ulven"'' means "the wolf")) was a Nazi concentration camps in Norway, concentration camp in Norway that was located in what was Os, Hordaland ...

until May, then Grini concentration camp from May 1943 to July 1944. He died in 1961. A street has been named after him in Florø.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lothe, Anders A 1875 births 1961 deaths People from Gloppen Norwegian schoolteachers Norwegian newspaper editors People from Flora, Norway Labour Party (Norway) politicians Sogn og Fjordane politicians Members of the Storting Ulven concentration camp survivors Grini concentration camp survivors Norwegian temperance activists Nynorsk-language writers