Martin Tranmæl

Martin Olsen Tranmal (* June 27, 1879 in Melhus, Sør -Trøndelag, † 1 July 1967) was a leader of the Norwegian labor movement.

Before the First World War Tranmal worked for six years in the U.S., where he made ​​contact with the Industrial Workers of the World. He became involved after his return to the Norwegian Labour Party (NAP; well as DNA ) and became leader of its left wing. As party secretary in 1919, he advocated the connection to the Comintern. After a conflict with Grigori Zinoviev he organized in 1923, however, the withdrawal from the International. The party turned in the following years again to the Social Democrats.

Tranmal belonged from 1925 to 1927 to the Storting and was from 1938 to 1963 a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

In the 1930s Tranmal supported the young German exiles Herbert Frahm and let him publish under the pseudonym Willy Brandt in the party press.

Martin Tranmal was buried in the Oslo Vår Frelsers Gravlund.