Osmund Faremo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician
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Place of Birth: Hylestad, Aust-Agder, Norway
About Osmund Faremo
- Osmund Faremo (23 November 1921 – 16 April 1999) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Hylestad and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Aust-Agder 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 municipal council 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 county council.
- 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, Faremo was a member of the resistance group Milorg.
- He was captured on 5 February 1943 and imprisoned in German and Austrian Nacht und Nebel camps.
- He escaped in 1945, helped by the White Buses.
- 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 Helsinki Committee for Human Rights from 1985 to 1988.
- He was active in the Norwegian branch of the European Movement, in the Norwegian Defence Association, and founded a branch of Noregs Mållag 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 Norwegian State Railways and spent large parts of his professional career there.
- From 1964 he worked with promoting tourism in the Setesdal region. Osmund Faremo was married to Tora, née Aamlid.
- One of their daughters Grete Faremo followed in his footsteps to become a politician for the Labour Party.
- Grete Faremo served as a member of parliament and government minister before turning to the private sector to become a CEO.
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