Michael Puntervold

Michael Puntervold (4 September 1879 – 4 August 1937) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties.

He was born in Grimstad as a son of Karl Gustav Puntervold (1828–1920) and Francisca Maria Falch, née Landmark (1845–). His father was a seamen's school manager in Grimstad until 1885, when he was appointed as head quartermaster officer of the Royal Norwegian Navy in Horten. His father's lineage hailed from the Egersund district, his mother was from Jølster where her father served as bailiff. On his mother's side he was a first cousin of Ole and Hjørdis Landmark.

In September 1908 in Kristiania he married merchant's daughter Anna Pedersen Øyjord from Øyjord. The couple had three daughters, born between 1909 and 1916.

Puntervold finished middle school in Horten i 1895, and finished his secondary education at Kristiania Cathedral School in 1898. After doing military service, he returned to Horten where he taught at the middle school from 1899 to 1901. After spending the year 1902 in Alta, he moved to Narvik in 1903. He was the manager of the middle school here, co-founded and chaired the local chapter of the Labour Party and edited the party newspaper Fremover for a short time. From 1904 to 1910 he was a journalist in the Kristiania newspaper Social-Demokraten. Alongside his journalism he studied law at the Royal Frederick University. He was active in the Norwegian Students' Society and the Norwegian Student Choral Society, among others on three concert tours.

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