Robert Sæther
Robert Sæther was a Norwegian schoolteacher, newspaper editor and politician.
He was born in Valsøyfjord to farmer Johan Sæther and Ellen Valsø. As a local politician, Sæther was elected member of the city council of Kristiansund for nine periods between 1910 and 1945. He served as mayor of Kristiansund 1916-19, 1925-28, 1928-31 and 1931-34. He was elected representative to the Storting for the period 1937-1945, for the Conservative Party. During the German occupation of Norway he was removed from his job as school inspector and held a few weeks in the Vollan prison in 1944.
