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Karl Trasti
Minister of Industry
In office 20 January 1964 – 12 October 1965
Prime Minister	Einar Gerhardsen
Preceded by	Trygve Lie
Succeeded by	Sverre W. Rostoft
Minister of Pay and Prices
In office 25 September 1963 – 20 January 1964
Prime Minister	Einar Gerhardsen
Preceded by	Ole Myrvoll
Succeeded by	Idar Norstrand
In office 1 September 1962 – 28 August 1963
Prime Minister	Einar Gerhardsen
Preceded by	Gunnar Bøe
Succeeded by	Ole Myrvoll
Personal details
Born	(1917-02-19)19 February 1917 Vadsø, Finnmark, Norway
Died	4 October 1976(1976-10-04) (aged 59)
Party	Labour
Occupation	Politician Judge Jurist

Karl Trasti (19 February 1917 - 4 October 1976) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

During the third cabinet Gerhardsen he was appointed state secretary to the Minister of Finance in 1955, a post he held one year. He was later appointed Minister of Pay and Prices in 1962, and held that post to 1964 except for the month-long tenure of the cabinet Lyng in 1963. He then changed to Minister of Industry, but lost his job when the cabinet fell in 1965.

Born in Vadsø and graduating as cand.jur. in 1942, he notably worked as a judge during the legal purge after World War II. He was a secretary and consultant in the Ministry of Finance from 1943 to 1953, and director of the Norwegian Customs Authorities (named the Norwegian Customs and Excise Authorities from 1974) from 1957 to 1976, the year he died.

Trasti never held elected political office.

References

• "Karl Trasti" (in Norwegian). Storting.