Gerhardsen's First Cabinet Unification Cabinet | |
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Cabinet of Norway | |
Date formed | 25 June 1945 |
Date dissolved | 5 November 1945 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Haakon VII of Norway |
Head of government | Einar Gerhardsen |
No. of ministers | 15 |
Member party | Labour Party Liberal Party Conservative Party Communist Party Resistance movement |
Status in legislature | Majority |
History | |
Legislature term(s) | 1945-1949 |
Outgoing formation | 1945 parliamentary election |
Predecessor | Nygaardsvold's Cabinet |
Successor | Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet |
Gerhardsen's First Cabinet, often called the Unification Cabinet (Norwegian : Samlingsregjeringen), was a Norwegian government appointed to serve under Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen between 25 June and 5 November 1945, in the aftermath of the Second World War.
The preceding Nygaardsvold's Cabinet had been appointed nine years earlier, but in 1940, just before scheduled elections, Norway was invaded by Germany, and the government had to flee to London. When the war was over, Nygaardsvold's Cabinet abdicated after returning to Norway, and a panpolitical, coalition government was appointed by King Haakon VII to sit until an election for the Parliament of Norway could be held.
The cabinet is noteworthy in Norwegian political history for being the first one to include a woman, Kirsten Hansteen, who was Consultative Councillor of State in the Ministry of Social Affairs, the only one ever to have members from the Communist Party of Norway (one of whom was Hansteen), and the only time the Labour Party sat in a coalition government before Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was appointed in 2005.
The cabinet had the following members: [1]
Portfolio | Minister | Period | Party |
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Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Labour |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Trygve Lie | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Labour |
Minister of Defence | Oscar Torp | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Labour |
Minister of Finance | Gunnar Jahn | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Resistance |
Minister of Justice and the Police | Johan Cappelen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Conservative |
Minister of Church Affairs and Education | Kaare Fostervoll | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Labour |
Consultative Councillor of State for Church Affairs | Conrad Bonnevie-Svendsen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Resistance |
Minister of Agriculture | Einar Frogner | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Agrarian |
Minister of Trade | Lars Evensen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Labour |
Minister of Provisioning and Reconstruction | Egil Offenberg | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Conservative |
Consultative Councillor of State for Finnmark Affairs | Hans Gabrielsen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Liberal |
Minister of Shipping | Tor Skjønsberg | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Resistance |
Minister of Labour | Johan Strand Johansen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Communist |
Minister of Social Affairs | Sven Oftedal | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Labour |
Consultative Councillor of State for Social Affairs | Kirsten Hansteen | 25 June – 5 November 1945 | Communist |
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Preceded by Nygaardsvold's Cabinet | Norwegian Council of State 1945 | Succeeded by Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet |