Eigil Gullvåg

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Eigil Gullvåg (27 February 1921 – 1991) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Trondheim. [1] He was hired as a journalist in Arbeider-Avisa in 1945, and was editor-in-chief from 1958 to 1983. [2] When stepping down as editor-in-chief, he was decorated with the HM The King's Medal of Merit. [3] He continued working in the newspaper until reaching the retirement age. He was also a member of the board of the Norwegian Press Association and Association of Norwegian Editors. [1]

Gullvåg was also active in the Norwegian Labour Party. He was a member of its national board from 1961 to 1969, [1] and represented the party in Trondheim city council for five terms; [2] from 1970 to 1971 he served as deputy mayor, and from 1964 to 1980 he was a member of the city council executive committee. From 1976 to 1983 he was also a member of Sør-Trøndelag county council. [1] At the time of his death in November 1991, he had recently been re-elected for a sixth term. [2]

Related Research Articles

Dagsavisen is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999. After having been owned by an independent foundation for a few years, it is as of 2016 indirectly owned partly by Christian groups. It has borne several names, and was called Arbeiderbladet from 1923 to 1997.

Inge Ryan

Inge Ryan is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. From 2009 to 2017, he was County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag. Ryan was mayor of Namsskogan from 1991 to 1995, and was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 2001 to 2009, the last four years as his party's parliamentary leader.

Arbeider-Avisa was a daily newspaper published in Trondheim, Norway, started in 1924 and defunct in 1996. Until 1989 it was officially the newspaper for the Norwegian Labour Party.

Harald Torp Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (1890–1972)

Harald Vincent Houge Torp was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Conservative Party.

Steinar Gullvåg Norwegian politician

Steinar Gullvåg is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Ole Øisang

Ole Thorsen Øisang was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.

Trondheim Tramway controversy

The Trondheim Tramway controversy regards the political discussion of whether Trondheim, Norway, should have a tramway.

Anders Buen

Anders Johnsen Buen was a Norwegian typographer, newspaper editor, trade unionist and politician. He belonged to the Norwegian Labour Party from the start, being party secretary as well as editor of the party organs Social-Demokraten and Ny Tid, but politically he was described as a "reformist pragmatic", and was thus a member of the breakaway Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway from 1921 to 1927.

Knut Olai Thornæs Norwegian newspaper editor and politician

Knut Olai Thornæs was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party from 1900, and represented the party politically, but joined the Communist Party upon the split in 1923. Thornæs was the editor-in-chief of several newspapers, most notably Ny Tid.

Jørgen Vogt Norwegian newspaper editor and politician

Jørgen Herman Vogt was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician representing the Communist Party. He edited the newspapers Ny Tid and Friheten, served four terms in Trondheim city council and one term in the Norwegian Parliament.

Per Voksø

Per Voksø was a Norwegian newspaper editor and Christian leader.

Ottar Egil Toreng was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.

Snorre Valen Norwegian journalist, musician and former politician

Snorre Serigstad Valen is a Norwegian journalist, musician and former politician (SV). He was elected to the Stortinget from Sør-Trøndelag in 2009, and served as deputy head of the party from November 2015 until he resigned in 2019. Valen previously worked as a communications assistant at NTNU Social Research.

Arne Tumyr

Arne Tumyr is a Norwegian former journalist, newspaper editor and politician, and former leader of the organisation Stop Islamisation of Norway.

Einar Gauslaa was a Norwegian newspaper editor.

Eugène Olaussen Norwegian newspaper editor and politician

Ansgar Eugène Olaussen was a Norwegian newspaper editor, educated as a typographer, and politician. As a politician he started in Young Communist League of Norway (Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund, and notably edited Klassekampen from 1911 to 1921. For the Labour Party he was county leader, central board member and MP for slightly more than a year, until he joined the Communist Party in 1923. Some years after finishing his sole term as an MP for the Communists, he shifted to the far right and associated himself with Nazism during the Second World War.

Sigurd Simensen Norwegian newspaper editor and politician

Sigurd Simensen was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.

Eivind Reiersen Norwegian newspaper editor and politician

Eivind Reiersen was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He served one term as an MP, was deputy mayor of Skien, and edited the newspapers Fremover, Ny Dag, Bratsberg-Demokraten, Telemark Arbeiderblad, Telemark Kommunistblad and Rjukan Arbeiderblad.

Erling Bühring-Dehli was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Conservative Party.


Rolv Werner Erichsen was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was born in Holt outside Tvedestrand in Aust-Agder.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Eigil Gullvåg 70 år 27. februar" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 6 February 1991.
  2. 1 2 3 "Redaktør Eigil Gullvåg er død" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 6 November 1991.
  3. ↑ "Redaktør Gullvåg fratrer". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 31 October 1983. p. 10.
Media offices
Preceded by Chief editor of Arbeider-Avisa
1958–1983		Succeeded by



Flag of Norway.svg Crystal Clear app Login Manager 2.png Quill and ink.svg

This article about a Norwegian writer, poet or journalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.