Tønnes Andenæs

Tønnes Madsson Andenæs (25 June 1923 – 22 February 1975) was a Norwegian jurist, book publisher and politician for the Labour Party.

he was a son of vicar Mads Olsen Andenæs (1855–1942) and his wife Signe Theoline Mydland (1883–1958).

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, young Andenæs became involved in the illegal press.

Utgave for selvstudium about the Constitution of Norway has been reissued twelve times, the last in 1993, and has been translated to English (1951), French (1962) and German (1964).

From January to October 1965 he was a part of Gerhardsen's Fourth Cabinet, as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Church Affairs and Education.

He died midway in his last term,[3] in the Tretten train disaster,[1] and was replaced with Svein Gunnar Morgenlien.