Ingvald Berentin Aase (5 February 1882 – 23 May 1948) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the

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and the

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parties. He was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

as a son of Baste Olsen Aase (1850–1936) and Marta Mundal (1852–1895). He had basic education before taking

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training, and he received a craftsman burghership in 1907. He was the manager of the

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...

Bergens Malerverksted from 1914 to 1923. He chaired the union ''Malersvennenes forening'' in Bergen from 1912 to 1916, and ''Bergen faglige samorg'' in 1917. He was a member of Bergen city council from 1916 to 1933, from 1919 to 1931 in the executive committee. From 1921 to 1928 he chaired the local branch of his parties. 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 Bergen in

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and

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. Midway in his first term he changed allegiance from the Labour Party to the Communist Party. Midway in his third term he returned to the Labour Party. In 1930 he was hired as a secretary in the

Norwegian Union of Building Workers The Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers ( no, Norsk Bygningsindustriarbeiderforbund, NBIAF) was a trade union in Norway, organized under the national Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. It was founded in 1923 as the Norwegian Union o ...

. He became chairman of this union in 1933. From 1934 to his death in 1948 he was the treasurer of the

Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions ( no, Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, LO) is a national trade union center, decidedly the largest and probably the most influential umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway. The 21 national unions ...

. He was also a board member of the newspaper ''

Arbeidet ''Arbeidet'' ("The Work") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Bergen in Hordaland county. History and profile ''Arbeidet'' was started in Bergen as a socialist newspaper on 6 December 1893, by a grouping called . It was the first socialist d ...

''.

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1882 births 1948 deaths Norwegian trade unionists Members of the Storting Politicians from Bergen Labour Party (Norway) politicians Communist Party of Norway politicians {{Norway-politician-1880s-stub