Frode Rinnan

Frode Rinnan (12 December 1905 – 15 February 1997) was a Norwegian architect and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of ship inspector Carl Julius Rinnan (1881–1963) and his wife Thonny Nielsen (1880–1955).

[3] During the German occupation of Norway, which started in 1940, Rinnan joined the Norwegian resistance movement.

He planned several entirely new neighborhoods in the city, including Tveita and Lambertseter; the latter called "the first Norwegian dormitory town".

For the Oslo Bolig- og Sparelag he and Olav Tveten designed housing co-operatives at Nordre Åsen, Keyserløkka, Valle-Hovin, Teisen, Oppsal, Haugerud, Trosterud and Hovseter between 1948 and 1976.

[1] Together with left-wingers such as Karl Evang, Vilhelm Aubert, Kristian Gleditsch, Johan Vogt and Reidar Aulie, Rinnan discussed starting a new, fortnightly publication to represent the leftist opposition within the Labour Party.