Einar Frogner
Einar Frogner (born May 19, 1893 in Løten , Hedmark ; † July 10, 1955 ) was a Norwegian politician of the Bondepartiet (farmers' party), who was temporarily Minister of Agriculture and from 1948 to 1955 party chairman.
Life
Farmer, landowner and local politician
After graduating from agricultural school in Jønsberg in 1912, Frogner, the son of a farmer, first became the manager of an estate in Gudbrandsdalen , then from 1915 to 1920 in Østerdalen and finally between 1920 and 1924 in Vang , before finally buying the Dørum estate in Vang himself in 1924.
During this time he began his political career in local politics and was initially a member of the local council from 1924 to 1927 and then a member of the Vang local council until 1930 and at the same time chairman of the farmers' party in Vang from 1924 to 1930.
As a landowner, he also began to get involved in various local and national agricultural organizations in the mid-1930s and was, among other things, chairman of the Association of Horse Breeders in Vang between 1935 and 1947 , from 1936 to 1948 regional chairman of the Association of Agricultural Employers, between 1941 and 1955 Chairman of the Hedmark dairy and milk suppliers 'association and from 1944 to 1955, regional chairman of the dairy farmers' pension fund .
In addition, Frogner, who became a board member of the farm school in Fylke Hedmark in 1937 , was for many years a member of the boards of the Forestry Association Hedmark (1935 to 1947), the Østlandet milk center (1936 to 1955), the Norwegian Farmers Union (1945 to 1947) and the national association of the Norwegian Mild Producers (1951 to 1955) as well as from 1944 to 1955 member of the Supervisory Board of the National Association of Norwegian Mild Producers.
MP, minister and party leader
After the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht and the end of World War II , he was elected as a candidate for the Peasant Party in 1945 for the first time as a member of the Storting , where he represented the constituency of Hedmark until his death .
On June 25, 1945, Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen appointed him Minister of Agriculture to the first Norwegian government of the post-war period and was a member until November 5, 1945, after Gerhardsen formed his second government, which consisted only of the Arbeiderpartiet .
After he was a member of the state executive from 1945 to 1946, he became deputy chairman of the Bondepartiet in 1946 and finally party chairman in 1948 after the death of Nils Trædal .
During his ten-year membership in parliament, he was first secretary of the Storting Committee for Roads and Railways ( Vei- og jernbanekomité ) from December 1945 to January 1950 and then chairman of the Transport Committee ( Samferdselskomité ) from January 1950 until his death . At the same time he was a member of the Transport Council ( Samferdselsrådet ) from 1948 to 1955 . In addition, he was temporarily a member of the electoral committee ( Valgkomité ) and a delegate to the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) and the Nordic Council .
After he was secretary of the Bondepartiet parliamentary group from 1945 to 1950 , he was also deputy parliamentary group leader of his party in Storting until his death.
After his death in 1955 he was succeeded by Per Borten as chairman of the Bondepartiet.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frogner, Einar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian politician (Bondepartiet), member of the Storting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Løten , Hedmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1955 |