Osmund Faremo (23 November 1921 – 16 April 1999) was a

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politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

Hylestad Hylestad is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The former municipality existed from 1915 until its dissolution in 1962. It was located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Valle in the traditional r ...

and was elected to the

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from

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, en, "East Agder") was a county (''fylke'') in Norway until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . The ...

in 1965, and was re-elected on four occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the terms 1958–1961 and 1961–1965. On the local level he was a member of

Bygland Bygland is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Setesdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bygland. Other villages in the municipality include Åraksbø, Austad, By ...

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from 1951 to 1975, serving as deputy mayor from 1962 to 1963 and mayor from 1958 to 1959 and 1963 to 1966. From 1958 to 1960 he was also a member of Aust-Agder

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. He chaired the local party chapter from 1951 to 1964, and from 1965 to 1966 he was a member of the Labour Party national board. During the

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany 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 ...

, Faremo was a member of the resistance group

Milorg Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Resistance work included intelligence gathering, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, espionage, transport of ...

. He was captured on 5 February 1943 and imprisoned in German and Austrian

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camps. He escaped in 1945, helped by the

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. Among his awards for war efforts were the ''Honorary Medal of the German Democratic Republic'', 1970. Faremo was later a promoter of Norwegian- Yugoslav relations and a member of the council of the Norwegian branch of the

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from 1985 to 1988. He was active in the Norwegian branch of the

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, in the Norwegian Defence Association, and founded a branch of

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intended for members of parliament, named ''Løvebakken mållag''. He chaired the latter group from 1978 to 1985. He chaired the friendship association Friends of Israel in the Norwegian Labour Movement (Norwegian: Venner av Israel i Norsk Arbeiderbevegelse). Other than his military training, Faremo was educated in the

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and spent large parts of his professional career there. From 1964 he worked with promoting tourism in the

Setesdal Setesdal (; older name: Sætersdal) is a valley and a traditional district in Agder County in southern Norway. It consists of the municipalities of Bykle, Valle, Bygland, Iveland, and Evje og Hornnes. The Otra river flows through the valley of ...

region. Osmund Faremo was married to Tora, née Aamlid. One of their daughters

Grete Faremo Grete Faremo (born 16 June 1955) is a Norwegian politician, lawyer and business leader. From August 2014 to May 2022, she held the post of Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). ...

followed in his footsteps to become a politician for the Labour Party. Grete Faremo served as a member of parliament and

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before turning to the private sector to become a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faremo, Osmund 1921 births 1999 deaths Members of the Storting Mayors of places in Aust-Agder Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian resistance members Night and Fog program 20th-century Norwegian politicians