Asbjørn Haugstvedt

Asbjørn Haugstvedt (born November 20, 1926 in Bergen , Fylke Hordaland ; † June 26, 2008 ) was a Norwegian politician of the Kristelig Folkeparti , who was a member of the Storting for 16 years, president of the Odelsting from 1977 to 1981 and minister for between 1983 and 1986 Commerce and shipping was in the government of Prime Minister Kåre Willoch .

Life

Professional career and local politician

Haugstvedt, son of the warehouse manager Ingvald Haugstvedt and his wife Hilma Ovidia Michelsen, began his professional activity as an office assistant at the Bergen power station after completing secondary school in 1943 and attending commercial school for one year. He worked there until 1959 and later became an accountant before he became deputy head of the company's punch card department after attending the IBM school in 1956. After attending social law courses in Norway, Sweden and Finland , he became an inspector at the Bergen Social Welfare Office in 1961 and held this position until 1969.

In addition to his professional activity, Haugstvedt began his political career in local politics in Bergen at the end of the 1950s and was a member of the Bergen City Council between 1959 and 1963 and again from 1969 to 1971. In the meantime he was from 1964 to 1969 chairman of the KrF parliamentary group in the city council and as such also a member of the city council (Bergen Formannskap) . He was also chairman of the board of the Bergener Hotell Neptun between 1963 and 1975 .

Storting member and chairman of the KrF parliamentary group

In the election of September 8, 1969 , Haugstvedt was elected for the first time as a candidate for Kristelig Folkeparti (KrF) as a member of the Storting and first represented the city of Bergen and then from the election on September 10, 1973 to the election on the 1985 election, the Hordaland district .

In 1969 Haugstvedt became a member of the central board of the Kristelig Folkeparti and belonged to it until 1975, where he was also the second vice-chairman of the KrF between 1971 and 1975.

During this time he was Lars Korvald's successor from October 18, 1972 until he was replaced by Korvald on October 16, 1973, as chairman of the KrF parliamentary group in Storting and then vice-president between October 9, 1973 and September 30, 1974 des Odelsting, one of the then existing chambers of Storting.

President of the Odelsting and Minister

As the successor to Per Borten , Haugstvedt was President of the Odelsting from October 11, 1977 until his replacement by Arne Nilsen on September 30, 1981. At the same time he acted from October 1, 1977 to June 8, 1983 also as vice-chairman of the KrF parliamentary group in Storting.

In addition, in 1977 he was again a member of the central board of the KrF and was a member of it until 1983. During this time he was deputy chairman of the KrF and thus representative of the then party chairman Lars Korvald and, since 1979, of Kåre Kristiansen . At the same time he was from 1979 to 1985 chairman of the board of the weekly newspaper Folkets Framtid published by Kristelig Folkeparti .

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Kåre Willoch appointed him Minister for Trade and Shipping ( Handels- og Skipsfartsminister ) in his government on June 8, 1983 , and was a member of this until the end of Willoch's tenure on May 9, 1986. At the same time he acted as chairman of the commodity trade committee and the council for international economic cooperation between 1983 and 1986.

After leaving Storting and the government, he became more involved in his hometown of Bergen, where he was vice-chairman of the board for social housing between 1987 and 1993 and chairman of the district committee of Bergen-Zentrum from 1988 to 1991 and then chairman of the senior citizens' committee between 1991 and 1999 from Bergen center.

In addition, Haugstvedt, who became an honorary member of Kristelig Folkeparti in 1991, was CEO of the bus company Åsane Billag A / S between 1988 and 1991 .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Storting
• Biography in the store norske leksikon