Hanna Adolfsen

From 1920 to 1923, she headed the Norwegian Labour Party's Women's Federation (Arbeiderpartiets kvindeforbund), taking a more radical stand than her predecessors Gunhild Ziener and Martha Tynæs by supporting dictatorship of the proletariat and socialization in line with trends in Moscow.

[1] Originally from Røyken, Adolfsen first became active in the seamsters' association in Christiania where she served as both chairman and treasurer.

In 1917, she became secretary of the Norwegian Tailors Association (Norsk Skrædderforbund), where she was appointed treasurer in 1920.

In addition to becoming a board member of Kvinnenes kontor (The Women's Office) from its establishment in 1909, she served on Oslo's city council where she worked on hospitals and social care.

Adolfsen was elected chair of the Labour Party's Women's Federation after a dramatic confrontation with the less radical former chairman Gunhild Ziener.