August Embretsen

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 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.

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