Nationality Norwegian Party Communist Party of Norway Spouse Viggo Hansteen | Died November 17, 1974 Name Kirsten Hansteen | |
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Political party Communist Party of Norway | ||
Kirsten Hansteen (5 January 1903 – 17 November 1974) was the Norwegian appointed Minister of Social Affairs in 1945, and the first ever female member of cabinet in Norway. She represented the Communist Party of Norway. Her husband Viggo Hansteen was executed by the German occupation forces in 1941. She edited the underground resistance paper Kvinnefronten (The Women's front) during the German occupation. After the war she founded the journal Kvinnen og Tiden together with Henriette Bie Lorentzen.
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