Evald O. Solbakken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician and newspaper editor
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Place of Birth: Vang, Oppland, Norway
About Evald O. Solbakken
- Evald O.
- Solbakken (15 December 1898 – 4 March 1967) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He joined the Labour Party through membership in the youth association Freidig in Storhamar in 1917.
- His first political position was to be secretary here.
- He was hired as secretary in the trade information office in Hamar in 1920.
- In 1921 he was hired as subeditor in the Hamar newspaper Demokraten, where he succeeded Georg Svendsen.
- Solbakken's superior at the time, editor-in-chief Olav Larssen, has made note that Solbakken was among the last journalists in the labour press to be hired with primary education only.After a short period in 1923 as editor-in-chief of Østerdal Arbeiderblad, he joined the Communist Party later in 1923 and became subeditor in Arbeideren (the new name of Demokraten).
- In 1927 he rejoined the Labour Party, and was hired as subeditor in Hamar Arbeiderblad.
- He was then editor-in-chief of Tidens Krav from 1928 to 1931, subeditor of Fremtiden from 1931 to 1934, then a journalist in Arbeiderbladet.
- From 1947 to 1961 he edited Hamar Arbeiderblad.During World War II and the German occupation of Norway he was arrested on 4 December 1940, and imprisoned in Ã…kebergveien until 4 March 1941.
- He was arrested for the second time, and imprisoned in Møllergata 19 from 27 January to 23 April 1942, then in Grini concentration camp until 2 June 1942.
- He then spent time in exile in Sweden, where he helped lead the refugee centre Kjesäter towards the end of the war.After the war he released the memoirs I fengsel og landflyktighet (1945), and several historical books: 50 års samvirke i hovedstaden (1945), Hamar Arbeiderblad gjennom 25 år (1950), Hamar Jern- og Metallarbeiderforening 50 år: 1900-1950 (1950), Det røde fylke gjennom 100 år (1951), Hedmark fylkes arbeiderparti 1904–12.
- november 1954 (1954) and Hamar arbeiderparti 1907–27.
- januar 1957 (1957).
- He became blind in his later life.
- He died in March 1967, and was buried in Hamar.
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