Jonas Brunvoll, Sr.

Who is Jonas Brunvoll, Sr.?

Jonas Brunvoll was a Norwegian advertisement manager, editor and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Ålesund as a son of fisherman Nils Brunvoll and Beret Sæterø. In 1919 he married Kirsten Sørsdal. They settled at Jar, and their sons Gunnar and Jonas, Jr. became opera administrator and opera singer, respectively.

After finishing middle school in 1910, he worked as a postal clerk until 1916. He took postal school in 1913, but also commerce school at Treider in 1917, whereupon he was hired as a bank clerk. From 1920 he worked in the press, and in 1923 he finished his fourth education; advertising school. He was elected as a member of Bærum municipal council in 1929, and was continuously re-elected. In 1936 he became a member of the municipal council's executive committee, and also board member of Bærum Hospital. He also served as board member of Oslo salgs- og reklameforening from 1936 to 1938. In 1939 he was hired as advertisement manager in the Labour Party main organ Arbeiderbladet, a job he kept until 1964.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, Arbeiderbladet was shut down already in the first year.