Hallvard Eika

Hallvard Eika (born December 5, 1920 in Canada ; † May 17, 1989 ) was a Norwegian politician from the left-wing liberal Venstre (V), who was chairman of the Norwegian Farmers' Union (Norges Bondelag) from 1955 to 1966 and was a member of the Storting for eight years . Later he was Minister of Agriculture in the government of Prime Minister Per Borten from 1970 to 1971 and Minister for Trade and Shipping in the government of Prime Minister Lars Korvald from 1972 to 1973 .

Life

Degree, farmer and farmer functionary

Eika, son of the farmer Kittil H. Eika and his wife Kari Landsverk, attended schools abroad from time to time and from 1938 to 1940 the agricultural school in Foldsæ and between 1942 and 1943 the cathedral school in Hamar , before he studied at the Norwegian from 1943 to 1946 Agricultural college NLH (Norges landbrukshøgskole) graduated. After completing his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Business Administration and Agricultural Economics at the NLH between 1946 and 1948 , and then from 1948 to 1950 as a consultant for the Norwegian Farmers' Association.

During his subsequent activity from 1950 to 1952 as an advisor to the Royal Society for Development Aid (Det Kongelig Selskap for Norges Vel) , he undertook a five-month study visit to the USA in 1951 . Since 1952 he has been running his own farm as a farmer in Bø , a small municipality in Fylke Telemark , of which he was mayor between 1967 and 1970.

In 1955 Eika succeeded Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg as chairman of the Norwegian Farmers' Union (Norges Bondelag) and held this position for eleven years until he was replaced by Johan A. Vikan in 1966. At the same time, he was involved in various other agricultural organizations and companies From 1955 to 1970 chairman of the milling company Bø Mølle L / L , between 1963 and 1970 chairman of the slaughterhouse sales center, 1964 to 1968 vice-president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers , between 1965 and 1970 chairman of the meat company I / S Oslo Kjøttindustri and, since 1969, chairman of Hotel A / S Bø Hotell .

Storting member and minister

As a candidate for the left-wing liberal Venstre, he was elected a member of the Storting in the election on September 8, 1969 , and represented the Telemark district for eight years until the election on September 12, 1977 . From October 1, 1969 to August 21, 1970, he was a member of the Venstre Group Bureau . From 1970 to 1971 he was a member of Bø Municipal Council.

Lyngstad, who was from 1968 to 1976 a member of the regional executive committee of the Venstre, held the position as vice-chairman of the Venstre between 1970 and 1972 and as such was responsible for the organization of the party.

On August 21, 1970, Eika was appointed by Prime Minister Per Borten as successor to Bjarne Lyngstad as Minister of Agriculture (Landbruksminister) in his government and held this ministerial office until the end of Borten's term of office on March 17, 1971. He was then between March 24, 1971 and October 18, 1972 Vice-Chairman of the Storting's Judiciary Committee.

Prime Minister Lars Korvald appointed Eika Minister for Trade and Shipping (Handels- og Skipsfartsminister) in his government on October 18, 1972 , of which he was a member until the end of Korvald's tenure on October 16, 1973. He was also chairman of the Telemark Provincial College between 1972 and 1976, of which he had been a member since 1972.

Commitment to various institutions and bank managers

Between 1975 and 1983 he was again a member of the local council of Bø and at the same time acted as provincial agronomist of Flyke Telemark from 1977 to 1985, as chairman of the Soil Research Committee of the Norwegian Agricultural Research Council (Norges landbruksvitenskapelige forskningsråd) between 1977 and 1982 and from 1976 to 1982 as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the food business Frionor-Produkter A / S .

In the early 1980s, Eika also took on various managerial functions at financial services and credit institutions and was CEO of Landkreditt between 1981 and his death in 1989 and also CEO of the Central Bank for Agricultural Business Loans (Centralkassen for Bøndernes Driftskreditt) from 1982 to 1988 .

Furthermore, from 1983 to 1989 he was head of the research institute for georesources and environmental pollution GEFO (Institutt for georessurs- og forurensningsforskning), which is also part of the NLVF, and between 1984 and 1988 head of the State Agricultural Inspectorate . Eika, who became Knight First Class of the Order of Saint Olav in 1986, also became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bøndernes Bank A / S in 1986 and, between 1987 and his death in 1989, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Focus Bank, which emerged from a merger with Buskerudbanken , Forretningsbanken and Vestlandsbanken .

Publications

• Landbrukssamvirke , in: Sosial håndbok for Norge , 1953
• Prisstøttesystemet i amerikansk jordbruk. Rapport fra en studiereise , co-author Ane Solbraa, Oslo 1955
• Norges tilknytning til Det europeiske økonomiske fellesskap , co-author Hans Borgen, Oslo 1961

Web links

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