Augusta Aasen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician
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Place of Birth: Namsos, Trøndelag, Norway
About Augusta Aasen
- Augusta Aasen, née Paasche (19 May 1878 – 3 August 1920) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Osen as a daughter of Fredrik Christian Paasche and Pauline Sivertsdatter Vaagen.
- Together with book printer Edolf Aasen (1877–1969) she had the son Arne Paasche Aasen, a well-known poet.She hailed from Steinkjer, and was a member of Trondhjem city council from 1908 to 1911.
- She was the first female council member in Norway's third largest city.
- She then moved to Kristiania and was a secretary in Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund from 1912 to 1914.
- She also worked in the newspaper Direkte Aktion.Politically, she was a board member of Kristiania Labour Party, and a deputy board member of the central board.
- In 1920, she was the only female Norwegian delegate to the Second Comintern Congress.
- Here she died at the airport when she was hit by an airplane propeller.
- She was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis; as the only Norwegian woman buried here.
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