Amandus Holte
Amandus Holte (24 September 1888 – 15 December 1965) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of baker Amund Holte and Ingeborg Isaksen. He was a laborer in the factories E. Sunde & Co, C. Blunck, Skabo Jernbanevognfabrik and Wisbech. He was deputy chair and chair of the trade union Metallarbeidernes forening, and later board member of the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers. He was a supervisory council member of Oslo faglige samorg from 1925 to 1926. From 1931 he was employed as the secretary of the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers.[1]
He was a supervisory council member of Oslo Labour Party from 1918, deputy chair from 1926 and chairman from 1929 to 1930.[1] He succeeded and was succeeded by Ingvald Rastad.[citation needed] He was a central board member of the Labour Party from 1925 to 1927. He was also a city councilman in Oslo.
In 1924 he was the sixth ballot candidate for the Labour Party in the parliamentary election. He was elected as third deputy.[2] In the 1930 election he was again elected as third deputy, and met in parliamentary session in 1933.[1]
He died in December 1965 and was buried at Østre gravlund.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Amandus Holte" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ^ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. VII. 176. Stortingsvalget 1924" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
- ^ "Cemeteries in Norway". DIS-Norge. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
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