Konrad Nordahl

Konrad Mathias Nordahl (25 September 1897 – 22 May 1975) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.

At the age of two, he lost his mother and was raised by his uncle and aunt as foster parents; he was then given the surname Nordahl instead of Johannessen.

[2] He had secretary jobs for the Labour Party and its youth wing, and became a central board member of the Young Communist League of Norway in 1923.

[1] In 1923 Nordahl had married Constance Hole (1897–1986) and moved to Bergen, where he found work in a workshop.

[1] The Confederation of Trade Unions leadership in Norway was filled with other people, perceived as more cooperationist—Nazis were however not installed until November 1941.

[3] According to Dagsavisen commentator and former Labour Party politician Arne Strand, Nordahl was one of the three most powerful politicians in the Norwegian labour movement, and thus also in Norwegian 20th-century politics, together with Einar Gerhardsen and Martin Tranmæl.

[6] The newspaper Morgenbladet are among those who has expanded this group somewhat, to include Haakon Lie and Trygve Bratteli as well.