Ingerid Gjøstein Resi

Ingerid Gjøstein Resi (15 July 1901 – 6 August 1955) was a Norwegian philologist, women's rights leader and politician for the Liberal Party. She served as President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1952 until her death in a plane crash in the Soviet Union in 1955.

She was the daughter of the newspaper editor, politician, Member of Parliament and mayor of Stavanger Johan Gjøstein and the women's rights pioneer Anna Gjøstein. She worked for some years as a stenographer at the Parliament of Norway, passed the examen artium (university entrance exam) in 1929 and obtained the cand.philol. degree at the Royal Frederick University in 1931.

She was chairwoman of the Oslo branch of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights before she was elected the national president in 1952. She died in a plane crash in the Soviet Union in 1955 with nine other Norwegian women.^[1]

She was also a member of Oppegård municipal council and its executive committee, representing the Liberal Party, from 1952.^[2]

She was married to parish priest Oscar Resi and had two children; her son was the noted journalist and foreign correspondent of NRK Kjell Gjøstein Resi and her daughter was the archeologist and professor at the University of Oslo Heid Gjøstein Resi.

References

1. Verdens Gang 8 August 1955 p. 10
2. Elisabeth Lønnå: Stolthet og kvinnekamp: Norsk kvinnesaksforenings historie fra 1913, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1996, ISBN 8205244952