Augusta Aasen

Augusta Aasen, née Paasche (19 May 1878 – 3 August 1920) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

She was born in Osen Municipality as a daughter of Fredrik Christian Paasche and Pauline Sivertsdatter Vaagen. Together with book printer Edolf Aasen (1877–1969), she had a son Arne Paasche Aasen, a well-known poet.

She hailed from Steinkjer Municipality, and was a member of the municipal council for Trondhjem Municipality from 1908 to 1911.

Politically, she was a board member of Kristiania Labour Party, In 1920, she was the only female Norwegian delegate to the Second Comintern Congress. Here she died at the airport when she was hit by an airplane propeller. She was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis (Mass Grave No. 9) as the only Norwegian woman buried there.