Idar Olav Norstrand (14 February 1915,
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
By May 20 ...
– 8 September 1986) was a Norwegian civil servant, trade unionist and politician for the
Labour Party.
He worked as a
mail carrier
A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Unite ...
from 1934 to 1941, and later as personnel director in
Norway Post
Posten Bring, formerly Posten Norge (), is the name of the Norwegian postal service. The company, owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, had a monopoly until 2016 on the distribution of letters weighing less than throu ...
from 1957 to 1982. From 1941 to 1945, during the
German occupation of Norway
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...
, he fled to
Stockholm, Sweden
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and worked at the
Norwegian legation there. From 1946 to 1951 he chaired the trade union
Norwegian Union of Postmen.
From 1964 to 1965, during the
fourth cabinet Gerhardsen, he was appointed Minister of Wages and Prices.
References
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1915 births
1986 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Politicians from Bergen
Norwegian trade unionists
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