Jonas Collett

Jonas Collett.

Jonas Collett (born March 25, 1772 on the Rønnebæksholm estate in Næstved on Zealand ; † January 3, 1851 in Christiania (now Oslo )) was a Norwegian politician .

Life

Jonas Collett was born in 1772 on the Rønnebæksholm estate on the island of Zealand, owned by his father Johan Collett (1734–1806). His mother was Else Elisabeth Ramus Jensen (1746–1788). He studied in Copenhagen the law and entered 1795 as a bailiff to Sandsvær and Numedal in Norway Official Buskerud in the civil service. Then he was for a time senior miners' assessor in Kongsberg and was appointed chamber councilor in 1808, bailiff in Buskerud in 1813 and councilor in 1814. On October 15, 1797, he married Maren Christine Collett (1777-1860), a daughter of the landowner Peter Collett (1740-1786) and his wife Johanne Henriche Ancher (1750-1812).

At the beginning of 1814, as a nationally-minded Norwegian, Collett stood on the side of the party that refused recognition for the Kiel treatise and proclaimed the Danish prince Christian Frederik as governor and later as king of Norway. He took part in the Eidsvoll assembly and the imperial assembly that declared Norway's independence with the publication of the constitution. Immediately after the adoption of the Basic Law of May 17, he was elevated to the position of the Norwegian State Council in the Department of the Interior and participated in the conclusion of the Moss Convention on August 14, 1814. In this agreement, the Swedish King Charles XIII accepted. the Norwegian constitution with the change that from now on he ruled Sweden and Norway in personal union. After this unification of Norway and Sweden, Collett remained a State Councilor and administered the Department of Internal Affairs until 1819 and the Navy Department from 1819 to 1820.

After Count Hermann von Wedel-Jarlsberg left , Collett took over the finance , trade and customs department in 1822 . However, he was temporarily unpopular because of the Swedish influence that weighed on the Norwegian government and in 1827 he was indicted at the Imperial Court for violating the constitution, but acquitted. After the death of Count Baltzar von Platen , King Karl XIV. Johann entrusted him with the chairmanship of the Norwegian State Council in December 1829. In this role he regained the lost popularity. When the Storting imposed on him in 1833 the repayment of a salary supplement of 3,000 thalers, which had been accepted without constitutional approval, he was at the same time awarded a thank you gift of the same amount. Collett did not accept this, but the Storting of 1836 relieved him of the repayment ordered.

When Collett secretly communicated the king's resolution of July 2, 1836, regarding the dissolution of the Storting, so that the assembly could vote on the budget as quickly as possible and thus thwart the intention of the court, he felt compelled to do so in late autumn 1836 to say goodbye. From then on he devoted himself to science and agriculture. Because of his weakened health, he visited the medicinal springs of Tepltz in 1837. Highly respected, Collett died on January 3rd, 1851 at the age of 78 in Christiania (now Oslo) and was buried on Vår Frelsers Gravlund .

literature

• Jonas Collett . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 4, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 211–212.
• Odd Arvid Storsveen: Jonas Collett . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon
• Jonas Collett . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 54 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Jonas Collett  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jonas Collett's biography . regjeringen.no

predecessor	Office	successor
Baltzar von Platen Viceroy, Crown Prince Oskar (I)	Prime Minister of Norway 1829–1833 1833–1836	Viceroy, Crown Prince Oskar (I) Herman von Wedel-Jarlsberg