Amandus Holte [SEP] date of birth
Amandus Holte
Amandus Holte (24 September 1888 – 15 December 1965) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of baker Amund Holte and Ingeborg Isaksen. He was a laborer in the factories E. Sunde & Co, C. Blunck, Skabo Jernbanevognfabrik and Wisbech. He was deputy chair and chair of the trade union "Metallarbeidernes forening", and later board member of the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers. He was a supervisory council member of "Oslo
Amandus Holte as chairman, he had a second term as chairman from 1931 to 1933.
Together with Sigrid Hilton he had the daughter Elsa Rastad Bråten who later became a member of Parliament. He died in 1958; the main speaker at his funeral was then-Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen.