Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet Explained

Cabinet Name:Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet
Cabinet Type:Cabinet
Jurisdiction:Norway
Flag:Flag of Norway.svg
Flag Border:true
Date Formed:5 November 1945
Date Dissolved:19 November 1951
Government Head:Einar Gerhardsen
Current Number:15
Legislature Status:Majority government
76 / 150(50.67%)
Election:1945 parliamentary election
1949 parliamentary election
Legislature Term:1945-1949
1949-1953
Previous:Gerhardsen's First Cabinet
Successor:Torp's Cabinet

Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet governed Norway between 5 November 1945 and 19 November 1951. The Labour Party (Ap) cabinet was led by Einar Gerhardsen.[1]

In May 1948, Gerhardsen told Jens Chr Hauge, that he was considering resigning.[2] Furthermore, as candidates for prime minister, Gerhardsen named Torp, Sverre Støstad and Lars Evensen.[3]

On 17 June 1948 parliament started its deliberations about the Helset Case.[4] Something Gerhardsen knew, but did not tell parliament, was that he had certain[5] evidence, that "either at the US embassy or in the top leadership of Norway's Armed Forces there were people who were willing to leak top secret info about then minister of defence's conversations with US military attaché, winter and spring 1948, in an attempt to force" the defence minister out of office—with or without the knowledge of Olaf Helset. Later in 1948 Olaf Helset resigned.

Cabinet members

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Einar Gerhardsen's Second Government . . 10 January 2010.
  2. Njølstad p.352
  3. Njølstad p.352
  4. Njølstad p.367
  5. Njølstad p.369