Helge Seip

Helge Lunde Seip (born March 5, 1919 in Umgebung , Fylke Møre og Romsdal , † January 29, 2004 in Bærum ) was a Norwegian journalist and politician of the left-liberal Venstre (V), the Det Nye Folkepartiet (DNF) and most recently the Det Liberale Folkepartiet (DLF), who was editor-in-chief of the daily Dagbladet between 1954 and 1965 , was a member of Storting for 15 years with interruptions, and was Minister for Labor and Local Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Per Borten between 1965 and 1970 .

He was then chairman of Venstre between 1970 and 1972 . After he had resigned from this because of the Eurosceptic course , he acted from 1972 to 1973 as chairman of Det Nye Folkeparti. Later he was Secretary General of the Nordic Council from 1973 to 1977 and first Director of the newly established national authority for data security Datatilsynet between 1980 and 1989

Life

Studies and professional activities

Seip, son of the doctor Torkel Arup Schive Seip and the nurse Helga Lunde, began studying economics after attending school in 1938 , which he completed in 1941 as Candidatus oeconomices (Cand. Oecon.). At the same time , he completed a law degree in 1942 as Candidatus juris (Cand. Jur.). As a student, he began his political engagement as chairman of the student association of the Venstre in Oslo between 1938 and 1939 and then from 1939 to 1945 as vice-chairman of the Venstre in Oslo.

In addition to his studies, he worked from 1939 to 1941 as an accounting assistant at the Socioeconomic Institute of the University of Oslo then worked as secretary of the Norwegian Association of Teachers, before he and 1941-1942 between 1942 and 1944 as advisor to the fur wholesale GC Rieber & Co A / S in Bergen deals was.

After working for a year from 1944 to 1945 as an editorial secretary at Nasjonalforlaget , Seip worked in the business department of the daily Dagbladet between 1945 and 1954 . In addition, Seip, who in 1945 was also vice-chairman of the student organization DNS ( Det norske Studentersamfund ) , was an advisor to the Economic Coordination Council (Det økonomiske Samordningsråd) in 1945, an auditor at the University of Oslo between 1946 and 1958, an advisor to the Ministry of Finance from 1946 to 1948 and between 1947 and 1955 part-time lecturer for public economics.

Local politician, civil servant and editor-in-chief of Dagbladet

After the war he was also involved in local politics and was initially a member of the Oslo City Council between 1945 and 1947 and a judge at the Oslo City Court from 1946 to 1947. In 1947 he was also chairman of the youth association of the Venstre of the Nordic Council.

After completing a course in Salzburg , he became office manager in the Ministry of Commerce in 1948 and held this position until 1952. During this time, he was from 1950 to 1951 and the Norwegian delegation to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) in Paris and went on from 1951 to 1952 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation study trips to Switzerland , the Netherlands , the United Kingdom and the USA .

Seip was then from 1952 to 1954 office manager in the statistical central office SSB ( Statistisk sentralbyrå ) , before he was political editor and editor-in-chief of Dagbladet between 1954 and 1965 .

He has been politically active in the municipality of Bærum since the 1950s and was its vice-mayor between 1951 and 1955 and then from 1955 to 1959 a member of the local council and between 1959 and 1967 a member of the local council. In addition, he was between 1951 and 1955 also vice-member of the provincial parliament ( Fylkesting ) of Fylke Akershus .

Storting member and minister

After Seip was vice-member of the regional executive committee of the left-liberal Venstra between 1948 and 1952, he became a member of the state executive committee of the party in 1952 and belonged to it for twenty years until 1972.

As a candidate for the left-wing liberal Venstre , he was elected member of the Storting for the first time in the election of October 12, 1953 , and represented the interests of Oslo until the election on September 11, 1961 . At the beginning of his membership in parliament he was from January 11, 1954 to September 30, 1961 Vice-Member of the Venstre parliamentary group and at the same time between January 22, 1954 and September 30, 1961 Secretary of the Storting Committee for Municipal Affairs.

In the election of September 13, 1965 , Seip was again a member of the Storting for Oslo and initially represented the Venstre there before he left this and joined Det Nye Folkepartiet (DNF) on December 9, 1972.

On October 12, 1965, Seip was appointed by Prime Minister Per Borten as Minister for Local Affairs and Labor (Kommunal- og Arbeidsminister) in his government and held this office until he was replaced by his fellow party member Helge Rognlien on August 29, 1970.

Chairman of the Venstre and the DNF

In 1970 Seip succeeded Gunnar Garbo as chairman of the Venstre. After the Venstre in 1972 came to different opinions about Norway's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC), he was one of the co-founders of the Det Nye Folkeparti (DNF), which emerged from the Europe-friendly wing of Venstre. His successor as chairman of the Venstre was thereupon Helge Rognlien, who had already become his successor in 1970 in the ministerial office.

He was then from October 1, 1970 to December 9, 1972 chairman of the Venstre parliamentary group and then from December 9, 1972 to September 30, 1973 chairman of the DNF parliamentary group in Storting. In addition, he acted from October 5, 1970 to September 30, 1973 as chairman of the Storting Committee for Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Affairs.

He himself became the first chairman of the DNF in 1972, but in the following year 1973 he handed over this function to Magne Lerheim, who had also left Venstre .

In the election on September 10, 1973 , he lost his mandate, so that the DNF was only represented in Storting by former Minister Ole Myrvoll, who had also come from Venstre . At the same time he was chairman of the data committee from 1972 to 1975.

Secretary General of the Nordic Council and First Director of Datatilsynet

After leaving the Storting, Seip acted as the successor of his compatriot Emil Vindsetmo between December 1973 and his replacement by Gudmund Saxrud , who also came from Norway, in August 1977 as Secretary General of the Nordic Council. He then went back to work as a journalist and was editor-in-chief of the business newspaper Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende from 1977 to 1980 .

At the same time he got involved again in local politics and was again Vice Mayor of Bærum from 1979 to 1983.

In 1980, Seip became the first director of the newly established national authority for data security Datatilsynet . He remained in this position until he was replaced by Georg Apenes in 1989. In addition, he was chairman of the data technology working group of the Nordic Council from 1981 to 1982 and chairman of the broadcasting council of the Norwegian broadcaster NRK ( Norsk rikskringkasting ) between 1986 and 1989 . In 1989 he was the first to take on the role of Commissioner for Data Protection of the Council of Europe and held this post until 1995.

He was also active from 1980 to 1995 as chairman of the supervisory board of the Henie Onstad art center, named after Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad , in Høvikodden , a district of Bærum.

In 1981, as successor to Reidar Carlsen , Seip also became chairman of the Norwegian Association of Vereinigung Norden , an association represented in the Nordic countries to promote cultural and political cooperation between the individual Nordic countries. He held this position until he was replaced by Reidar Østgård in 1987. In 1983 he was awarded the Swedish Jacob Letterstedt Medal for his services to Nordic cooperation .

Between 1981 and 1987 he was also a member of the central board of the Det Liberale Folkepartiet (DLF), which was formed from the DNF. Seip, who was a member of the local council of Bærum between 1987 and 1991 and was appointed commander of the Order of Saint Olav in 1989, served as judge at the local court (Herredsretten) of this municipality from 1991 to 2000 . In 1997 he also became an honorary member of the North Association and in 2000 received the Rosing Prize from the Norwegian Computer Society (Den Norske Dataforening) .

Publications

Books

Vi velger. Stortingsvalget 1945 , Oslo 1945
Dagbladets kommunevalgbok , 1947
Kommunenes økonomi , Oslo 1949
The possibilities of continuing nordic cooperation within the framework of an extended Europe , Helsinki 1973
Stortingsvalget 1977. For the follow-up to the valgresultatene September 12 , Oslo 1977
Kommunevalget 1979. Boken for the som vil følge valgresultatene , Oslo 1979
Stortingsvalget 1981. Personer, partilister and all interesting tallies for som vilge med i valgresultatene September 14th , co-authors Olaf Chr. Torp and Carl Johan Berg, Oslo 1981
Norge og Sverige gjennom 1000 år: i feide og fellesskap , co-authors Alf Henrikson and Arne F. Andersson, Oslo 1985

Articles and essays

Einar Gerhardsen: ener i norsk og nordisk politikk , in: Nordisk Tidskrift , Volume 64, Issue 1, 1988
Regulator og prinsipper for personvernet , in: Jussens venner , issue 4/5, 1988
Krönika om nordiskt samarbete: arbeidsprogram for Norden i Europa , in: Nordisk tidsskrift , volume 65, issue 4, 1989
Ti år med datatilsynet , in: CompLex , No. 4, 1990
Norge i 1989 , in: Nordisk tidskrift för vetenskap, konst och industri , volume 66, issue 3, 1990
Fra fattig-Norge til velstandssamfunn , in: Knut Ramberg, Arne Bonde and Knut Bjørnsen (editors): Lillehammer '94 , Volume 2, Oslo 1992
Krönika om nordiskt samarbete: Nordisk råd i omstillings- og brytningstid , in: Nordisk Tidskrift , volume 68, issue 6, 1992
Krönika om nordiskt samarbete: kulturinnsats som motvekt mot nordisk marginalisering , in: Nordisk tidskrift , year 69, issue 1, 1993
Krönika om nordiskt samarbete: nærhetsprinsippet og våre nordiske folkelige organisasjoner , in: Nordisk Tidskrift , volume 69, issue 3, 1993
Norsk innvandringspolitikk , in: Almanakk for Norge 1996 , Oslo 1996
Høyrebølger og other politiske velgervibrasjoner , in: Kulturelt Perspektive , Volume 7, No. 3, 1998

Background literature

Guttorm Hansen (editor): Mennesket i sentrum: festskrift til Helge Seips 70-årsdag , Oslo 1989

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Liberal Party (Venstre) in rulers.org
↑ Ole Myrvoll was the only representative of the DNF who was elected a member of the Storting in the election of September 10, 1973. In the election of September 12, 1977 he also lost his mandate, so that the DNF was no longer represented in the Storting.
^ Nordic Council in rulers.org

personal data
SURNAME	Seip, Helge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seip, Helge Lunde (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian politician (Venstre, Det Nye Folkepartiet), minister and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ora dal , Fylke Møre og Romsdal
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 2004
Place of death	Bærum

[1] Liberal Party (Venstre) in rulers.org

[2] Ole Myrvoll was the only representative of the DNF who was elected a member of the Storting in the election of September 10, 1973. In the election of September 12, 1977 he also lost his mandate, so that the DNF was no longer represented in the Storting.

[3] Nordic Council in rulers.org