Ole Kopreitan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician
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Place of Birth: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
About Ole Kopreitan
- Ole Andreas Kopreitan (19 September 1937 – 23 January 2011) was a Norwegian political activist, best known as an anti-nuclear activist.
- For 30 years he led the anti-nuclear organization "No to Nuclear Weapons".He was born in Stavanger as a son of Christian missionary Ole August Kopreitan (1885–1941) and clothing worker Anna Ottervig (1907–1999).
- He grew up at Hitra, but moved to Hurdal when he was nine years old.
- He was educated at the teacher's college in Sagene.He became a political activist in Oslo, and was among others known for storming Madserud tennis court on 13 May 1964, with 50 others, to halt a tennis competition between Norway and South Africa, in protest of apartheid.
- For this he was convicted for civil disobedience.
- At that time he was also involved in partisan politics, as chairman of the Socialist Youth Association (SUF).
- He was a party secretary of the Socialist People's Party from 1967.
- He later drifted away from partisan politics, mostly due to internal strife in the Socialist People's Party.
- He instead joined the popular movement Folkebevegelsen mot EF, which worked, successfully, to prevent Norwegian membership in the European Communities. For 30 years Kopreitan led the anti-nuclear organization Nei til Atomvåpen (No to Nuclear Weapons).
- Aside from managing organizational affairs in Nei til Atomvåpen, he was very well known for spreading leaflets and selling campaign buttons from a cart on Norway's main street, Karl Johans gate.
- In 2002 he was awarded the Nuclear-Free Future Award.He was formerly married to Turid Evang, a daughter of Karl Evang, but the marriage was dissolved.
- In 1999 he married nurse Isabel Ortiz.
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