Norwegian Statesman, Author. He was born Kjell Gjøstein Aabrek to office manager Rasmus Nikolaj Aabrek and his wife Aadel Gjøstein Aabrek, a teacher in Bergen, Norway. He was educated locally and received a Candidatus philologiæ (an academic degree in Arts and Letters) in 1926. He then studied in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, with a scholarship from Conrad Mohr from 1929 to 1930. During this time he decided he wanted to pursue a career in politics. He ran for a seat on the Bergen City Council and was elected. He served in that position from 1928 to 1930. He also accepted a position as an Associate Professor in Skien, Norway, and worked at that from 1930 to 1931, and was a Lecturer in Narvik, Norway, from 1931 to 1934. He also took up a position as a Member of the School Board in Bergen, Norway, from 1928 to 1930, and 1936 to 1946. In 1947, he again studied in Denmark, and in Sweden in 1949. He was named Chairman of the School Board in Bergen, Norway, and served in that position from 1946 to 1950. He also served another term on the Bergen City Council from 1945 to 1951, and served as Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Committee for the National Agency for Education from 1947 to 1952, as Chairman of the Bergen United Labour Party from 1948 to 1951, and as a Member of the National Board of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1949 to 1953. He was also elected to a seat in the Norwegian Parliament and represented the city of Bergen, Norway, beginning in 1954. He would eventually be re-elected to three terms to serve the Norwegian Parliament and Norwegian Labour Party. While serving in the Norwegian Parliament and Norwegian Labour Party he served as a Deputy Representative from 1950 to 1953, but was promoted to Regular Representative when representative Nils Langhelle was appointed State Secretary of the Second Cabinet of Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen in 1951. His other duties included, Member in Parliamentary Committees from 1950 to 1953, Member in Delegations from 1950 to 1953, Meeting regularly as a Representative with Nils Langhelle from 1951 to 1954, Member of the Social Committee from 1951 to 1954, and 1954 to 1957, Member of the Social Affairs Committee from 1954 to 1955, Deputy Member of Storing's Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from in 1952, and again from 1954 to 1957, Member of Group Board from 1954 to 1957, Deputy Member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1954, and for the United Nations General Assembly in 1955, Member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 1955, Deputy Member of the Group Board of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1954 to 1958, Member of the Military Committee from 1955 to 1958, State Secretary with regular meetings with Representative Ranveig Johanna Frantzen in 1958, State Secretary in the Third Cabinet in the Office of the Prime Minister 1958 to 1963 (he served in Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet but he lost the position temporarily when The John Lyng Cabinet held office from August 28, 1963-September 25, 1963), and again as State Secretary in the Fourth Cabinet of Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen from 1963 to 1965. He also served as Leader of the Social Democratic Youth Association's Information Work from 1926 to 1927, Chairman of the Bergen Workers' Society from 1935 to 1937, Vice Chairman of the Bergen District of the Norwegian Lecturer's Association from 1940 to 1941, and Chairman of the Bergen District of the Norwegian Lecturer's Association in 1945, Chairman of the Pedagogical Society of Narvik, Norway, Member of the Dissenter Law Committee of 1957 in 1957, Chairman of the Board of the Norwegian School of Local Government and Social Affairs from 1953 to 1959, Member of the Norwegian Broadcasting Council from 1951 to 1959, and as an Associate Professor at Syneshausen School in Bergen, Norway, from 1934 to 1965. He retired from public service in 1965. He lastly served as an Associate Professor at Bergen Teacher Training College from 1966 until his death in 1967. He was the author of the literary works, "Practical Peace Work In Norwegian-Swedish Labor Policy" (1928), "Proletarbaret" (1935), and "Governments And Ministers" (1945-1962). He passed away on December 30, 1967, at the age of 66.