Arbeideren (Hamar)
It was started in 1909 as the press organ of the Labour Party in Hedemarken and its adjoining regions, and was called Demokraten ("The Democrat") until 1923.
Demokraten was originally the name of a short-lived newspaper in Hamar started by Leopold Rasmussen in 1852, connected to the Marcus Thrane movement.
[1] An organ for the social liberal labour movement in the district, Arbeiderbladet existed from 1889 to 1892 and was published out of different cities, including in Hamar in the year 1890.
[4] In the same year, the labour movement in Solør (south of Hedmark) bought the paper Solungen, which had existed since 1904.
Demokraten was the Labour Party organ for the Mjøsa Cities and Hedemarken,[7][8][9] but in its first years it also covered Gudbrandsdalen and Østerdalen, two northern regions.
[12] According to reports in Demokraten the newspaper again began to cover news from a part of Gudbrandsdalen, namely the city Lillehammer, in 1912.
He resigned in 1912 and Ole Holmen, a member of the Vang municipal council, took over as chief editor.
He got several adversaries in the city's conservative community, especially after donning a badge with the broken rifle, a well-known anti-war symbol.
[22][23] The practice of issuing the newspaper six days a week became harder after the outbreak of the First World War.
The war caused a general rise in prices, and newspaper subscriptions and advertisements both declined.
[33] Editor Larssen and subeditor Solbakken both joined the Communist Party in 1923 and continued running the newspaper.
Larssen was thus replaced in January 1927 and left the Communist Party, and Solbakken soon followed suit.
According to Evald Solbakken, and also to the reference bibliography Norske aviser 1763–1969, the replacement was Olav Scheflo, who needed a stand-in, Ingvald B. Jacobsen, for the first period.
[39][33] According to the encyclopaedia Arbeidernes Leksikon and historian Einhart Lorenz, Trond Hegna was the editor in 1927, before he took over Norges Kommunistblad in the summer of 1927.
[33] As many newspapers belonging to the dwindling Communist Party, Arbeideren would cease to exist before the end of the 1920s.
It was still published six times a week, but had to give up its printing press in 1929, switching to Samtrykk in Oslo.
[27] The Communist Party later tried to create a weekly newspaper in Hamar, Rød Front, but it was short-lived and existed only between 1932 and 1933.
[43][44] The Oslo version of Arbeideren went defunct in 1940, and many years after that, the name was used from 1951 to 1953 for a third newspaper, published in Brumunddal, not far from Hamar city.
