Gunnar Bråthen

Gunnar Bråthen (7 October 1896 – 7 June 1980) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.

He was a board member of the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers during the same period, and then a secretary from 1925 to 1931.

After seven years in Hedmark faglige samorganisasjon he was a secretary in the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in Northern Norway from 1938 to 1941, and nationwide from 1945 to 1950.

He was first arrested on 1 July 1941, and was imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from February 1942 to January 1943.

He was also a board member of Fosdalen Bergverk from 1946 to 1966, Samvirkebanken from 1952 to 1967 (chair from 1963 to 1967), Norsk Jernverk from 1963 to 1966, Norasonde from 1965 to 1969 and Sydvaranger.