Rut Brandt was born on January 10, 1920 in Hamar, Norway. She was married to Willy Brandt and Ole Olstadt Bergaust. She died on July 27, 2006 in Berlin, Germany.
Second wife of West Germany's chancellor Willy Brandt. They had three children: Peter (born 1948), Lars (born 1951) and actor Matthias Brandt (born 1961).
Being member of a Norwegian resistance group against the Nazi
occupation, she fled to Sweden with one of her sisters in 1942.