Christian Holtermann Knudsen
Christian Holtermann Knudsen was a Norwegian typographer, newspaper editor, publisher, trade unionist and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. He is known as chairman of his party in three nonconsecutive periods, and also founded what would become the main party newspaper. He served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament.
He was born in Bergen as the son of a cooper. He finished a typographers education in 1865, and worked for several printing presses in Kristiania. Most notably he worked for the weekly newspaper Almuevennen, as typographer for six years and manager for eight years. In 1872 he was among the cofounders of the trade union Oslo Typografiske Forening. He chaired this organization from 1876 to 1878, 1879 to 1882 and 1883 to 1885, and in 1883 he cofounded the first trade union center in Norway, Fagforeningernes Centralkomit.
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