Harald Johan Løbak (2 June 1904 – 6 February 1985) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Trysil. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from

Hedmark Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged i ...

in 1945, and was re-elected on six occasions. He was the Minister of Agriculture from May 1956 to April 1960 during the

third cabinet Gerhardsen Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet was the cabinet of Norway from 22 January 1955 to 28 August 1963. The government was led by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen, marking his third term in said role. The cabinet was defeated in a motion of no-confidence in 1 ...

. During the period, he was replaced in the Norwegian Parliament by Haldis Tjernsberg. On the local level, he was a member of Trysil municipality council from 1928 to 1955, serving as mayor from 1937 except for the period 1940–1945 during the

German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

. He chaired the county party chapter from 1952 to 1968.

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* 1904 births 1985 deaths Ministers of Agriculture and Food of Norway Mayors of places in Hedmark Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Trysil {{Norway-politician-1900s-stub