Trygve Nilsen (26 August 1893 – 5 October 1973) was a Norwegian civil servant and Mayor of Oslo with the Labour Party.

Biography

He was born in

Kristiania Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

(now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Nils Nilsen (1856-1941) and Eli Johannessen (1858-1929). After training at technical evening school, Nilsen worked as a mason from 1909 to 1929. He was a member of

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

city council from 1926 to 1940, serving as

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from 1935 to 1936 and 1936 to 1940. He was then the Oslo chief administrative officer of housing from 1940 until he retired in 1959. Nilsen was central in the work of the social housing construction in Oslo in the interwar period, and has often been described as the father of the Oslo Housing and Savings Society (''Oslo Bolig og Sparelag'').

References

1893 births 1973 deaths Mayors of Oslo Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian civil servants {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub