Nils Trædal was a Norwegian cleric and politician for the agrarian party Bondepartiet

Bondepartiet

The name Bondepartiet can refer to:*The name of Norway's Centre Party until 1959*Farmers' Party, a Danish political party, founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1945...

 (later renamed Centre Party

Centre Party (Norway)

The Centre Party is a centrist and agrarian political party in Norway, founded in 1920. The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralised economic development and political decision-making.From its...

) and leader of the party from 1938 to 1948. He was Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1931-1932 and 1932-1933, as well as acting Prime Minister and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1932.

Together with farmer and author Hans Seland

Hans Seland

-Background:Hans Andreas Johanneson Seland grew up on the farm Seland near Nes in Flekkefjord in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway. Seland attended Stend Agricultural School . He was editor in Nordmands in Christiania and before 1896 went back to Nes to take over father's farm...

 and farmer union leader Hans Haga

Hans Haga

Hans Haga was a Norwegian agrarian leader.He spent most of his career in the Norwegian Agrarian Association. He was first hired as a secretary for the county chapter in Oppland in 1952, and became press consultant nationally in 1954...

 he was among the main agrarian party leaders to prevent the party from joining the fascist movement Nasjonal Samling, led by Vidkun Quisling

Vidkun Quisling

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian politician. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of Norway in progress, he seized power in a Nazi-backed coup d'etat that garnered him international infamy. From 1942 to 1945 he served as Minister-President, working with the occupying...

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