Olaf Solumsmoen (19 July 1896 – 22 September 1972) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

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, and decided to be a stenographer. He was hired in the Labour Party newspaper ''

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'' in

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, where he also was involved in local politics. He eventually left stenography to become a journalist. He worked as chief editor for the Labour Party press office Arbeidernes Pressekontor from 1931 to 1946. During the

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from 1940 to 1945, an underground newspaper was published titled '' Bulletinen''. The first editors were Olaf Solumsmoen and

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. Both men were arrested and imprisoned. Solumsmoen was imprisoned at

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(Norwegian: ''Grini fangeleir'') from 27 January 1942 to the end of the war, 8 May 1945. From 1946 Solumsmoen worked as "night editor" of ''

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'', the primary Labour Party newspaper. In 1948 he was hired as press secretary (title changed to state secretary in 1956) to the

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during Einar Gerhardsen's second cabinet until 1951, Oscar Torp's cabinet 1951–1955,

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1955-1963 and

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1963–1965. The tenure was only interrupted by the

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administration, which reigned for a month in 1963. He died in 1972 in

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.Register of Persons Norway's Governments since 1814
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*Giertsen, Børre R. (1946) '' Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene'' (Oslo: J.W. Cappelens Forlag) * Ottosen, Kristian (2004) '' Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945'' (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget) . 1896 births 1972 deaths People from Sigdal Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian resistance members Grini concentration camp survivors {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub