- Jakob Friis
Jakob Johan Sigfrid Friis (
27 April 1883 –12 December 1956 ) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party born inRøros . He also belonged to the Communist Party for a period.Outside of politics, he graduated with the
cand.philol. degree in 1909, and spent his professional career as a journalist and anarchivist . He was a journalist in "Socialdemokraten " from 1909 to 1912, "Ny Tid" from 1915 to 1917, "Arbeiderbladet " from 1917 to 1924 and "Norges Kommunistblad " from 1928 to 1929. He was also editor-in-chief of "Rjukan Arbeiderblad " from 1925 to 1928 and the working class encyclopediaArbeidernes Leksikon from 1930 to 1936. As an archivist he worked in the National Archives (Riksarkivet) from 1912 to 1915, followed by the regional state archives: in Trondhjem 1915-1917,Kristiania 1917-1922 andKristiansand 1934-1953.On the local level Friis was a member of Aker municipality council between 1919 and 1922, and of
Kristiansand city council between 1937 and 1940. He chaired the municipal party chapter from 1936 to 1937.Friis represented the Labour Party at the Second and Third Comintern World Congresses; he was also a member of the
Comintern Executive Committee from 1920 to 1921. In 1923, Friis supportedMartin Tranmæl and withdrawal of the Labour Party from the Comintern.Fact|date=April 2008 This saw the Communist Party break away from the Labour Party. However, Friis became a Communist Party member in 1928. He left the party in 1933, and rejoined Labour in 1936. Friis opposed the asylum forLeon Trotsky to come to Norway in 1935 and campaigned against the formerBolshevik leader when he lived inOslo .Fact|date=April 2008After World War II Friis was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties in 1945, and was re-elected on one occasion. He was still to be found on the left wing of the Labour Party, and was among the founders of the newspaper "Orientering " in 1953, having published the book "Kritikk av norsk utenrikspolitikk etter krigen" in 1952. He was considered for the editor-in-chief chair, butSigurd Evensmo was preferred for being more critical towards the Soviet Union.Fact|date=April 2008References
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