Karl Trasti (19 February 1917 - 4 October 1976) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. During the third cabinet Gerhardsen he was appointed state secretary to the Minister of Finance in 1955, a post he held one year. He was later appointed Minister of Pay and Prices in 1962, and held that post to 1964 except for the month-long tenure of the

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in 1963. He then changed to Minister of Industry, but lost his job when the cabinet fell in 1965. Born in Vadsø and graduating as

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in 1942, he notably worked as a judge during the legal purge after World War II. He was a secretary and consultant in the

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from 1943 to 1953, and director of the Norwegian Customs Authorities (named the

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from 1974) from 1957 to 1976, the year he died. Trasti never held elected political office.

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* 1917 births 1976 deaths Norwegian state secretaries Government ministers of Norway Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian jurists Personnel of the legal purge in Norway Deputy members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian lawyers People from Vadsø Ministers of trade and shipping of Norway {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub