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Norwegian civil servant and politician
Karl Trasti
Minister of Industry
In office
20 January 1964 – 12 October 1965
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byTrygve Lie
Succeeded bySverre W. Rostoft
Minister of Pay and Prices
In office
25 September 1963 – 20 January 1964
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byOle Myrvoll
Succeeded byIdar Norstrand
In office
1 September 1962 – 28 August 1963
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byGunnar Bøe
Succeeded byOle Myrvoll
Personal details
Born(1917-02-19)19 February 1917
Vadsø, Finnmark, Norway
Died4 October 1976(1976-10-04) (aged 59)
Political partyLabour
OccupationPolitician
Judge
Jurist

Karl Trasti (19 February 1917 - 4 October 1976) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

During the third cabinet Gerhardsen he was appointed state secretary to the Minister of Finance in 1955, a post he held one year. He was later appointed Minister of Pay and Prices in 1962, and held that post to 1964 except for the month-long tenure of the cabinet Lyng in 1963. He then changed to Minister of Industry, but lost his job when the cabinet fell in 1965.

Born in Vadsø and graduating as cand.jur. in 1942, he notably worked as a judge during the legal purge after World War II. He was a secretary and consultant in the Ministry of Finance from 1943 to 1953, and director of the Norwegian Customs Authorities (named the Norwegian Customs and Excise Authorities from 1974) from 1957 to 1976, the year he died.

Trasti never held elected political office.

References

Political offices
Preceded byGunnar Bøe Norwegian Minister of Pay and Prices
1962–August 1963 		Succeeded byOle Myrvoll
Preceded byOle Myrvoll Norwegian Minister of Pay and Prices
September 1963–1964 		Succeeded byIdar Olav Norstrand
Preceded byTrygve Lie Norwegian Minister of Industry
1964–1965 		Succeeded bySverre Walter Rostoft
Civic offices
Preceded byJohs. Dannevig Director of the Norwegian Customs Authorities
1957–1974 		Succeeded byposition abolished
Preceded byposition created Director of the Norwegian Customs and Excise Authorities
1974–1976 		Succeeded byJens Sterri


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