Reinert Torgeirson

Reinert Torgeirson (7 December 1884 – 30 November 1969) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.

Torgeirson was born in Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.

[2] He was a journalist in Ny Tid from 1910 to 1915, manager in Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund from 1915 to 1918, and director of the Labour Party publishing house Det Norske Arbeiderpartis Forlag from 1919 to 1923.

In 1919 and 1920, Torgeirson selected poems for a two-volume collection named Frihetsdigte.

He later turned to writing plays, mainly meant to be staged by young laborers: Den store leveransen (1923), Per Brått (1931), Stener for brød (1932), ''Arbeidar og bonde (1934) and Jonsokfest (1938).