Einar Moxnes

Einar Hole Moxnes

Einar Hole Moxnes (born June 11, 1921 in Alstahaug , Nordland ; † January 20, 2006 ) was a Norwegian politician of the Senterpartiet , who was a member of the Storting for four years from 1968 to 1971 fisheries minister in the government of Prime Minister Per Borten and between 1972 and 1973 Minister of Agriculture in the government of Prime Minister Lars Korvald . He later acted between 1974 and 1986 as District President ( Fylkesmann ) of the province of Sør-Trøndelag .

Life

Professional activities and local politicians

Moxnes, son of the farmer Einar Moxnes and his wife Agnes Hole, worked as a farm laborer from 1935 to 1938 after attending school and also completed vocational training as a carpenter , which he completed in 1937. He then attended the adult education center and, after its completion, the agricultural school from 1939 to 1940, before graduating from the craft school in 1941. He then worked again as a farm worker from 1942 to 1945 and finally as a foreman in 1945.

After finishing secondary school in Steinkjer in 1946 and the state school for smallholders in 1948, Moxnes worked as a plant planner and accountant for the municipal companies of Verdal from 1949 to 1950 , and from 1951 to 1974 he was the area agronomist of Åfjord and Stokksund .

Mid-1950s began Moxnes his political career in local politics and was from 1955 to 1966 chairman of the municipal council of the municipality Åfjord and was at the same time from 1958 to 1963 the provincial parliament ( Fylkesting ) and from 1959 to 1966 and the Provincial Committee (Fylkesutvalg) Sor -Trøndelag as a member. In addition, he was active between 1962 and 1964 as chairman of the inter-municipal working committee for the Fosen peninsula .

Storting member and minister

After he was vice-member of the Storting for Fylke Sør-Trøndelag since the election of October 6, 1957 , Moxnes was elected as a member of Storting in the election of September 8, 1973 as a candidate of the Senterpartiet for Fylke Sør-Trøndelag. During this time he was chairman of the Åfjord Senterpartiet between 1963 and 1965.

In the subsequent election on September 10, 1973 , he was again vice-member of the Storting for Fylke Sør-Trøndelag and held this position until the election on September 12, 1977 .

On November 8, 1968, Moxnes was appointed by Prime Minister Per Borten to succeed Oddmund Mykleust as Minister of Fisheries (Fiskeriminister) in his government, after which he had previously held the ministerial office on March 22, 1968. He held the ministerial office until the end of Borten's term of office on March 17, 1971.

Prime Minister Lars Korvald appointed him on October 18, 1972 as Minister of Agriculture (Landbruksminister) in his government, which he belonged to the end of Korvald's term on October 16, 1973. Between May and October 1973, the future Secretary General of Senterpartiet and Minister of Agriculture Svein Sundsbø was his personal secretary.

Fylkesmann from Sør-Trøndelag

In 1974 Moxnes succeeded Nils Lysø as the District President ( Fylkesmann ) of the Sør-Trøndelag Province and remained in this position until he was replaced by Reidar Due in 1986.

In addition, he was from 1974 to 1986 and Chairman of the Audit Committee on Archbishop's goods, and from 1975 to 1982 CEO of trawlers reederei Hafotrål A / S . He was also chairman of the main committee of local governments from 1980 to 1981 and chairman of the State Open Air Council (Statens friluftsråd) from 1982 to 1983 , an advisory body to the Ministry of the Environment for large, important or fundamental matters.

Moxnes later also held the position of chairman of the committee for the revision of the law on salmon and inland fisheries from 1983 to 1987 and then chairman of the working group on the organization, tasks and working conditions of the fishing industry between 1987 and 1993. He was also chairman of the Åfjord Health Association from 1989 and 1990.

Web links

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