Magnus Nilssen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Magnus Nilssen

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1871

Place of Birth: Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1947

Profession: politician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Magnus Nilssen

  • Magnus Nilssen (18 July 1871 – 20 November 1947) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties. He was born in Lillehammer as a son of shoemaker Mathias Nilssen (1834–1920) and his wife Eline Pedersen (1835–1918).
  • He was a first cousin of Marcus Halfdan Kastrud.
  • He finished his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in 1889, and moved to Kristiania in the same year.
  • He was a secretary in his local trade union from 1891 to 1892 and treasurer in 1893.
  • He was also member of the socialist youth club Friheden in both Kristiania and Sarpsborg (where he lived in 1894).
  • He started his own goldsmith business in 1897.
  • In November the same year he married Inga Marie Ravneberg.He joined the Norwegian Labour Party, and became a member of the central board in 1900.
  • From 1901 to 1918 he was the party secretary.
  • He lost out when "the new direction" became dominant in 1918.
  • "The new direction" had tried to replace him with Alfred Madsen at the national convention in 1915.
  • In 1921 he quit the central board to co-found a new party, the Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway.
  • He chaired this party throughout its existence, from 1921 to 1927.
  • He took part at the founding congress of the Labour and Socialist International in 1923; the other Norwegian delegates were Arne Magnussen, Michael Puntervold and Olav Kringen.Nilssen was a member of Kristiania (Oslo) city council from 1902 to 1910, 1914 to 1919 and 1926 to 1928.
  • To the Parliament of Norway he was elected for the first time in the 1906 Norwegian parliamentary election.
  • He represented his city.
  • He was re-elected eight times, to serve a total of nine terms in Parliament.
  • There was a hiatus between 1922 and 1927; he was never elected to Parliament for the Social Democratic Labour Party.
  • He served as President of the Lagting from 1919 to 1921 and Vice President of the Storting from 1935 to 1945.
  • After the reunion of Labour and Social Democratic Labour in 1927, he rejoined the Labour Party central board, this time as deputy party leader.
  • The party had two deputy leaders—Nilssen and Edvard Bull, Sr.—to accommodate different wings within the party.
  • Nilssen also served as Minister of Labour in the two-week Hornsrud's Cabinet between January and February 1928.He left as deputy leader in 1939, and left the central board in 1945.
  • His last term in Parliament ended in 1945—de facto with a hiatus from 1940 to 1945, when Germany occupied Norway and suspended Parliament.
  • Nilssen participated in the RiksrĂĄd negotiations in 1940 between Germans and those parliamentarians who had not fled the country, in which the Presidium infamously asked King Haakon VII to abdicate.
  • During the remainder of the occupation, Nilssen lost all his public positions.
  • After the occupation and war, he was dropped by the Labour Party as their member of the Presidium, and was not summoned to the relevant meetings and forums.
  • Fredrik Monsen was the party's new member of the Presidium.Nilssen was a member of the supervisory committee of the Gjøvik Line from 1908 to 1919, and of the supervisory council of Norges Brannkasse.
  • He was a school board member in Oslo from 1910 to 1922 and 1929 to 1937, and a board member of Norges Statsbaner from 1922 and Oslo Hospital from 1933.
  • He was a deputy board member of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture from 1938 to 1940, and a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1922 to 1940.Nilssen died in November 1947 in Oslo.

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