Reinert Torgeirson

Reinert Torgeirson (7 December 1884 – 30 November 1969) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was also an active poet, playwright and novelist.

Biography Torgeirson was born in Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was a member of the temperance movement in his youth. He was a journalist in Ny Tid from 1910 to 1915, manager in Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund from 1915 to 1918, and director of the Labour Party publishing house Det Norske Arbeiderpartis Forlag from 1919 to 1923. A handbook in organizational work he wrote together with Arvid G. Hansen, Haandbog i lags- og studiearbeidet (1916) was the first handbook of its kind. He was also a deputy member of the Labour Party's national board from 1918.

In 1923, Torgeirson broke away from the Labour Party, joining the Communist Party.

Torgeirson died in 1969, and is buried on Østre gravlund.