Georg Johan Jacobsen was a Norwegian politician for 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....

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He was born in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, finished commerce school in 1948, spent two years at sea before working various jobs. Among others he worked with administration in Bergens Arbeiderblad from 1962 to 1968.

He was a member of Bergen city council from 1959 to 1963, and of its executive committee from 1967 to 1971. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland

Hordaland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo by population. The county administration is located in Bergen...

 in 1973

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973

-Results:¹A coalition of the Socialist People's Party , the Communist Party of Norway , and anti-European Economic Community individuals from the Labour Party. The coalition evolved into the Socialist Left Party in 1975....

, and was re-elected on one occasion in 1977

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1977

-Results:...

. He was the deputy chair of his party locally from 1961 to 1974.

He was a board member of Bergen Sporvei

Bergen Sporvei

Bergen Sporvei AS was a municipal owned public transport company that operated in Bergen, Norway from 1898 to 1998. The company operated both the Bergen Tramway, Bergen trolleybus and the yellow buses in Bergen.-History:...

 from 1965, and of Bro- og Tunnelselskapet from 1971.