Kirsten Hansteen

Kirsten Hansteen (5 January 1903 – 17 November 1974) was a Norwegian editor and librarian. She was appointed Minister of Social Affairs with Gerhardsen's First Cabinet in 1945 and was the first female member of cabinet in Norway.[1]

Kirsten Hansteen
Consultative Minister of the Ministry of Social Affairs
In office
25 June 1945 – 5 November 1945
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
MinisterSven Oftedal
Succeeded byAaslaug Aasland
Personal details
Born(1903-01-05)5 January 1903
Lyngen, Troms, Norway
Died17 November 1974(1974-11-17) (aged 71)
Oslo, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyCommunist Party of Norway
Spouse(s)Viggo Hansteen (1900-1941)
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Professionwriter, editor, liberarian

Biography

She was born at Lyngen in Troms, Norway. Her parents were Ole Christian Strøm Moe (1866–1907) and Gerda Sophie Landmark (1871–1934). Her father died when she was only four years old, and her mother moved her five children to Kristiania (now Oslo). She graduated artium in 1921 and later studied German and Norwegian at the University of Oslo. [2]

In 1930, she married attorney Viggo Hansteen (1900-1941). Her husband was executed in 1941 during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. She edited the underground resistance and feminist paper Kvinnefronten (The Women's front) during the German occupation. [3]

After the liberation of Norway at the end of World War II, she co-founded the journal Kvinnen og Tiden with Henriette Bie Lorentzen (1911–2001). Lorentzen and Hansteen served as joint editors-in-chief of the journal which was in publication from December 1945 until 1955. Kirsten Hansteen was also a Member of the Norwegian Parliamentary from Akershus as a representative of the Communist Party of Norway from 1945 to 1949. Between 25 July and 5 November 1945, she served as Consultative Councillor of State in the Ministry of Social Affairs under Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen. From 1959, Kirsten Hansteen worked at the University of Oslo Library as a librarian until she retired in 1970. She died during 1990 in Oslo. [4] [5]

References
  1. Terje Halvorsen. "Kirsten Hansteen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. Knut Are Tvedt. "Kirsten Hansteen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. Harald Berntsen. "Viggo Hansteen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  4. "Kvinnen og Tiden". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  5. "Hansteen, Kirsten (1903-1974)". Stortinget. Retrieved May 1, 2018.

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