Frits Hansen (31 January 1841 – 8 June 1911) was a Norwegian educator, newspaper editor, biographer and politician.

Hansen was born at Larvik, in Vestfold, Norway. He was the son of Magistrate Frederik Christian Hansen (1799-1860) and Albine Elise Fougnerbakken (1801-1846). He earned his Cand.theol. degree in 1865. Subsequently, he became a teacher at the Norwegian Military Academy. From 1872, Hansen taught at Sagatun Folk High School in Hamar. In 1881 Hansen was a teacher at a private middle school in Stavanger. He was also editor of the Lillehammer newspaper Framgang. In 1890, he wrote Edvard Storm, digteren fra Vaage, a biography of the poet Edvard Storm. In 1896 he moved to Christiania (now Oslo) and was editor of Eidsvold. He was the chairman and founder of the regional centrist-conservative political party Centre in the 1890s.

Personal life

In 1872, he married Ingeborg Marie Heftye (1852-1894). Her father Thomas Johannessen Heftye was deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament and her brother was Norwegian Defense Minister Thomas Heftye. Her grandfather Johannes Thom*en Heftye had founded the Norwegian bank company, Thos. Joh. Heftye & Søn .

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