Jan Andersen-Gott (born 5 October 1941) is a Norwegian naval officer and trade unionist. He was born in

Vågå Vågå () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of ...

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, and lives at Jarmyra. He took his education at the

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and the ''Sjøforsvarets stabsskole'', worked as an active naval

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before being secretary of Sjømilitære Samfund and the naval officers' trade union. From 1987 to 1993 he led the

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. He then worked in the

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities () is an employers' organisation in Norway. It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities (''Norges Byforbund'', founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Associati ...

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1941 births Living people People from Vågå Royal Norwegian Naval Academy alumni Royal Norwegian Navy personnel Norwegian trade union leaders {{Norway-activist-stub