Eivind Petershagen was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 newspaper editor and politician for the Communist Party

Communist Party of Norway

The Communist Party of Norway is a political party in Norway without parliamentary representation. It was formed in 1923, following a split in the Norwegian Labour Party. The party played an important role in the resistance to German occupation during the Second World War, and experienced a brief...

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He was a smallholder and forest worker by profession. He was a member of the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

 since 1916, but joined the Communist Party in 1923. He was a member of Åmot

Åmot

Åmot is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena...

 municipal council for 28 years, and served as mayor from 1923 to 1925, in 1945 and from 1946 to 1947. He chaired the Communist Party branch in Hedmark from 1923 to 1925, and in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1924

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1924

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 he was elected to the Parliament of Norway. He served as a deputy parliamentary representative during the terms 1928–1930 and 1945–1949, and also stood for parliamentary election in 1930

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1930

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 without success.

He was the editor of Norges Kommunistblad

Norges Kommunistblad

Norges Kommunistblad was a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway.It was started on 5 November 1923 as the official party newspaper from the Communist Party, which was established that year after a split from the Labour Party. The first editor was Olav Scheflo...

for a short period during the summer of 1928, and the editor of Arbeideren

Arbeideren (Hamar)

Arbeideren was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Hamar, Hedmark county. It was started in 1909 as the press organ of the Labour Party in Hedemarken and its adjoining regions, and was called Demokraten until 1923...

from 1928 to 1929.