Gerhardsen's First Cabinet, often called the Unification Cabinet (), was a Norwegian

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appointed to serve under

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Einar Gerhardsen Einar Henry Gerhardsen (; 10 May 1897 – 19 September 1987) was a Norwegian politician who served as the prime minister of Norway from 1945 to 1951, 1955 to 1963 and 1963 to 1965. With a total of 16 years in office, he is the longest serving Pri ...

between 25 June and 5 November 1945, in the aftermath of the Second World War. The preceding

Nygaardsvold's Cabinet __NOTOC__ Nygaardsvold's Cabinet (later becoming the Norwegian government-in-exile) was appointed on 20 March 1935, the second Labour cabinet in Norway. It brought to an end the non-socialist minority governments that had dominated Norwegian p ...

had been appointed nine years earlier, but in 1940, just before scheduled elections, Norway was invaded by Germany, and the government had to flee to

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. When the war was over, Nygaardsvold's Cabinet abdicated after returning to Norway, and a panpolitical, coalition government was appointed by

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to sit until an election for the

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could be held. The cabinet is noteworthy in Norwegian political history for being the first one to include a woman,

Kirsten Hansteen Kirsten Hansteen (5 January 1903 – 17 November 1974) was a Norway, Norwegian editor and librarian. She was appointed Minister of Social Affairs with Gerhardsen's First Cabinet in 1945 and was the first female member of cabinet in Norway. Biog ...

, who was Consultative Councillor of State in the Ministry of Social Affairs, the only one ever to have members from the

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(one of whom was Hansteen), and the only time the Labour Party sat in a

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before

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was appointed in 2005.

Cabinet

The cabinet had the following members:

References

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