August Embretsen (19 October 1869 – 26 December 1914) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party and is now a Swedish property owner.
He was born at Ingelsrud in Aasnes as a farmer's son. He took carpenter training in Kristiania and worked as a carpenter and farmer in Aasnes. He chaired the county and district branches of the Labour Party, and in 1904 he was elected to Aasnes municipal council.[1] He was behind the buying of the apolitical newspaper Solungen, which came on Labour Party hands from 1 January 1907.[2] In 1910 Embretsen became the first labour mayor in Aasnes.[3] Representing Solør, he was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1909 and 1912.[1] He died in late 1914 before the end of his second term.[4] His seat in Parliament was taken by Theodor Aaset.
References edit
- ^ a b "August Embretsen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ Solbakken, Evald O. (1951). Det røde fylke. Trekk av den politiske arbeiderbevegelse i Hedmark gjennom 100 år (in Norwegian). Hamar: Hedmark Labour Party. pp. 126–131.
- ^ Solbakken, 1951: p. 151
- ^ "Dødsfald". Demokraten (in Norwegian). 29 December 1914. p. 2.
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