Reidar Hirsti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Reidar Hirsti

Norwegian newspaper editor and politician

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1925

Place of Birth: Tana, Northern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 12-Apr-2001

Profession: writer, politician, historian, biographer, contributing editor

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Reidar Hirsti

  • Reidar Andreas Hirsti (14 March 1925 – 12 April 2001) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Tana, and his first language was Sami.
  • During his childhood he experienced Norwegianization as well as the brutal scorched earth retreat by Nazi German occupants in 1944.
  • He finished his secondary education as late as in 1947.
  • He enrolled in studies, but did not complete them.
  • Instead he was the chairman of Workers' Youth League, the youth wing of the Labour Party, from 1955 to 1958.Hirsti then became known as editor-in-chief of Arbeiderbladet.
  • He was appointed at the Labour Party national convention in 1963, and the editor position also secured him a seat in the Labour Party central committee.
  • From 1970 to 1974 he chaired the Association of Norwegian Editors.
  • He was removed by people in the party in 1974.
  • From 1974 to 1975, during the second cabinet Bratteli, he served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Industry.
  • He then spent his career in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Most notably he was the programme editor from 1980 to 1987.
  • From 1976 to 1980 he was a board member of the Arts Council Norway.
  • He retired in 1995.Hirsti authored many books, many about historical or Sami topics.
  • He biographed Johan Nygaardsvold, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Yngve HÃ¥gensen.
  • His 1991 book Partipisken describes the inner discipline of the Labour Party and its newspaper.
  • In 2000 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.His wife since 1954 died in October 1989.
  • Hirsti died in April 2001 in Oslo.

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