| Republic of Norway Republikken Norge | ||||||
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| Capital | Oslo | |||||
| Government | Unitary provisional republic (1918–1920) Unitary parliamentary republic (1920–1948) | |||||
| President | ||||||
| - | 1918–1928 | Jens Hundseid | ||||
| - | 1928–1944 | Håkon Five | ||||
| - | 1944–1948 | Asbjørn Lindboe | ||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||
| - | 1918–1923 (first) | Otto Bahr Halvorsen | ||||
| - | 1946–1948 (last) | Arthur Nordlie | ||||
| History | ||||||
| - | Declared | 22 November 1918 | ||||
| - | Constitution adopted | 11 August 1920 | ||||
| - | Dissolved | 19 May 1948 | ||||
The First Norwegian Republic (Norwegian: Første norske republikk), officially the Republic of Norway (Norwegian: Republikken Norge) and sometimes referred to as the Hundseid Republic (Norwegian: Hundseid republikk), was the Norwegian republican state that existed from 1918 until 1948.
The republic came into existence after the Norwegian Revolution of 1918, when protests against Norway's involvement in the Great War resulted in King Friedrich I voluntarily abdicating after seeing his popularity decline. Immediately after his abdication, revolutioary Jens Hundseid was declared president of Norway. Originally the republic was supposed to act as the interim government before the election of a new monarch - initially, the most favoured candidate for the throne was Danish noble Christian of Denmark, grandson of Christian IX of Denmark. However, Christian rejected the throne, resulting in other options being broughout up, including the reinstatement of a personal union with either Sweden or Denmark. Rejecting other options, a republican constitution was officially adopted in August 1920.
In the first years of the republic's existence, Hundseid focused on repairing ties between Norway and all Allied powers of the Great War, restarting trade between the country and the other Scandinavian nations.
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