First cabinet Gerhardsen

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Midtskogen · Vinjesvingen
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Festung Norwegen
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People

Haakon VII · Nygaardsvold · CJ Hambro
CG Fleischer · Otto Ruge
Jens Chr. Hauge

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Josef Terboven · Wilhelm Rediess
von Falkenhorst

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Nasjonal Samling

Supported the
exiled legitimate
government

Supported the
German occupiers
and Nazi party

First cabinet Gerhardsen, often called the Unification Cabinet (Samlingsregjeringen), was a Norwegian government appointed to serve under Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen between July 25 and November 5, 1945, in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The preceding Cabinet Nygaardsvold had been appointed nine years earlier, but in 1940, just before scheduled elections, Norway was invaded by Germany, and the government had to flee to London. When the war was over, the cabinet Nygaardsvold abdicated after returning to Norway, and a panpolitical, coalition government was appointed by King Haakon VII to sit until an election for the Storting could be held.

The cabinet is noteworthy in Norwegian political history for being the first one to include a woman, Kirsten Hansteen, who was Minister of Social Affairs, the only one ever to have members from Norway's Communist Party (one of whom was Hansteen), and the only time the Labour Party sat in a coalition government before the present Second cabinet Stoltenberg was appointed in 2005.

[edit] Cabinet Nygaardsvold

The cabinet had the following members ^[1]

Portfolio	Minister	Period	Party
Prime Minister	Einar Gerhardsen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Labour
Minister of Agriculture	Einar Frogner	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Agrarian
Minister of Church Affairs and Education	Kaare Fostervoll Conrad Bonnevie-Svendsen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Labour Resistance
Minister of Defence	Oscar Torp	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Labour
Minister of Finance	Gunnar Jahn	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Resistance
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Trygve Lie	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Labour
Minister of Justice	Johan Cappelen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Liberal
Minister of Labour	Johan Strand Johansen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Communist
Minister of Social Affairs	Sven Oftedal Kirsten Hansteen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Labour Communist
Minister of Shipping	Tor Skjønsberg	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Resistance
Minister of Supply	Egil Offenberg Hans Gabrielsen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Conservative Liberal
Minister of Trade	Lars Evensen	July 25 - November 5, 1945	Labour