Anne Enger

Anne Enger (2013)
Photo: Senterpartiet

Anne Enger , formerly Enger Lahnstein (born December 9, 1949 in Trøgstad , Østfold ) is a Norwegian politician of the Senterpartiet (Sp), from 1991 to 1999 as party leader. From 2004 to 2015 she was Fylkesmann in Fylke Østfold. In 2018 she became a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee .

Life

Professional career, parliamentary mandate and party chairmanship

After graduating from high school in 1968, the daughter of a farmer completed a one-year internship in a home of Norges KFUK-KFUM at Askim Videregående Skole and then trained as a nurse at Det norske Diakonhjem , which she completed in 1972. She then completed a degree in social work there and graduated in 1975 as a Sosionom . Afterwards she was initially a nursing teacher in a deaconry hospital, before she headed the secretariat of the popular action against abortion from 1978 to 1979 .

Anne Enger then worked as secretary for the Senterparti faction in Storting until 1985 . She was chairwoman of the party in Oslo from 1980 to 1983, a member of the program commission between 1982 and 1983 and chairwoman of the party's organizing committee from 1984 to 1985. In 1983 she became vice chairwoman of the Sp and held this position until 1991.

In 1985 she was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Senterpartiet as a member of the Storting, where she represented the constituency of Akershus until 2001.

After she was initially a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee , she succeeded Johan Buttedahl as chairman of the Senterpartiet parliamentary group in October 1989 and was replaced in this function by Johan J. Jakobsen in April 1991 . Instead, she took over the office of party chairman of the Senterpartiet from Jakobsen in April 1991 and was chairwoman of the program committee from 1989 to 1993.

In 1994 she was one of the most committed advocates of Norway not joining the European Union .

During her long parliamentary membership was inter alia a member of the Storting committees of Social Affairs ( Sosialkomité ), the Foreign and Constitutional Affairs ( Utenriks- og konstitusjonskomité ) for elections ( Valgkomité (), for family, culture and administration family-, cultural og administrasjonskomité ) and for defense ( Forsvarskomité ). In addition, she was temporarily a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Nordic Council as well as the liaison group to the European Parliament .

Minister

On October 17, 1997, she was appointed by Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik as Minister of Culture in his first government and held this office until October 8, 1999. As Prime Minister Bondevik received treatment from August 31, 1998 to September 24, 1998 due to a depression found, she temporarily took over the office of Prime Minister. In addition, she was acting Minister for Oil and Energy from March to August 1999 .

Anne Enger, who was honored with the Trollkjerring Prize in 1999, handed over the office of chairman of the Senterpartiet to Odd Roger Enoksen in 1999 .

Withdrawal from active politics

She was then a member of the board of Norsk kulturarv A / S between 1999 and 2001 , before she was Secretary General of the Redningsselskapet sea ​​rescue company from 2001 to 2003 after leaving Storting . In addition, it was from 2001 to 2005 board member of the Foundation O. Kavli og Knut Kavlis Allmennyttige Fond and from 2001 to 2006 CEO of the Foundation Opplysningsvesenets Fund . Between 2001 and 2005 she was also a board member of Den Norske Opera & Ballet , Norway's largest music theater .

From 2004 to 2015 Anne Enger served as a Fylkesmann in Fylke Østfold.

She also became a board member in 2005 and then chairwoman of the board of National Theatret, Norway's largest theater in 2009 . Between 2006 and 2008 she was chairwoman of the so-called Likelønnskommisjonen , one based on a royal decree to investigate and eliminate pay differences between the sexes, and has been chairwoman of the Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning since 2008 .

Their son Erik Lahnstein , who was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry from 2010 to 2012, comes from their marriage to Geir Lahnstein . Anne Engers older sister is the politician Inger S. Enger , who was mayor of Gausdal for several years and between 2001 and 2009 also a member of the Storting.

Publications

• EF and Grunnloven , Oslo 1993
• Den lille forskjellen: om likestilling og likelønn i Norge , co-author Kristina Jullum, Aschehoug, Oslo 2009
• Grønn dame, rød klut , Aschehoug, Oslo 2001

literature

• Niels Chr.Geelmuyden: Trykket stemning: 26 portetter , Cappelen, Oslo 1991
• Bjørg Jønsson: Bak masks: seks politiker-portretter , Gyldendal, Oslo 1993
• Trond A. Enger: Anne , Gyldendal Oslo 1994
• Anne Enger Lahnstein , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/2000 from September 25, 2000, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Anne Enger  - Collection of Images

• Biography in store norske leksikon (online version)
• Short biography homepage of Storting

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tagesschau 20 years ago, November 29, 1994. (Video) In: tagesschau.de . Retrieved June 23, 2019 .