Oslo Waldorf School is a Waldorf school located in the Vestre Holmen area in the Vestre Aker district of West End Oslo, Norway. It is an integrated primary, middle and high school with around 550 pupils. Founded in 1926, it is one of the oldest Waldorf schools worldwide. The school is an independent non-profit foundation, receives government funding and is officially recognized under the Private School Act as equivalent to public schools, its diplomas qualifying for entry into higher education and other schools. It is a member of the Norwegian Association of Waldorf Schools. Many of its alumni have been noted in the arts, politics and other areas of society, and include the current NATO secretary-general and former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Novelist Jens Bjørneboe teaching at Oslo Waldorf School in 1952
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO and former Prime Minister of Norway
Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician who has served as the 13th secretary general of NATO, since 2014. A member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he previously served as the 34th prime minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 until 2013.
Stoltenberg in 2024
Stoltenberg with Russian president Vladimir Putin in New York City, 2000
Stoltenberg and Jonas Gahr Støre with US president George W. Bush during the NATO Summit in April 2008
Stoltenberg speaks on International Workers' Day at Youngstorget in Oslo on 1 May 2009.