Jens Haugland

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Jens Haugland (born April 16, 1910 in Bjelland , Marnardal , Vest-Agder ; † May 2, 1991 in Marnardal, Vest-Agder) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician of the Arbeiderpartiet , who was a member of the Storting from 1954 to 1973 and between 1955 and 1963 Minister of Justice in the Gerhardsen III government and from 1963 to 1965 the office of Minister for Local Authorities and Labor in the Gerhardsen IV government .

Life

Lawyer and MP

Haugland, the son of farmer Nils Haugland and Anna Mjaaland, began studying law at the University of Oslo after attending school in 1932, graduating in 1936 as Candidatus juris (Cand. Jur.). During his studies he joined the Arbeiderpartiet and after graduating he took up a position as a lawyer . In 1943 he founded his own law firm in Kristiansand , but fled shortly afterwards because of his work in the resistance against the German occupation forces to Sweden , where he was secretary of the Norwegian legation in Stockholm until 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War , Haugland returned to Norway and started working as a lawyer. In addition, he began his political engagement in local politics and was a member of the Kristiansand City Council between 1945 and 1954. Between 1950 and 1954 he was also a member of the executive committee of the workers' party there. In 1951 he was admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court (Norges Høyesterett) .

In the election of October 12, 1953 , Haugland was elected for the first time as a member of the Storting as a candidate of the Arbeiderpartiet and represented the interests of Fylke Vest-Agder until the election of September 10, 1973 . At the beginning of his membership in parliament he was from January 1954 to November 1955 a member of the electoral committee and a member of the judiciary committee.

Minister and Chairman of the Committee

On November 1, 1955, Haugland was appointed by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen to succeed Jens Christian Hauge as Minister of Justice (Justis- og Politiminister) in his third government , to which he was a member until the end of Gerhardsen's term of office on August 28, 1963. During his longstanding membership in the cabinet, he was, in contrast to ministers Trygve Bratteli and Halvard Lange and long-time party secretary Haakon Lie, one of the prime minister's loyal supporters, especially in important foreign and defense policy decisions of the time. He had an unclear attitude towards Asbjørn Bryhn , the head of the intelligence service PST ( Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste ) . He tried to limit the influence and control powers of the PST subordinate to him through ministerial regulations.

After the end of the bourgeois minority government of Prime Minister John Lyng , he took over the post of Minister for Municipalities and Labor (Kommunal- and Arbeidsminister) in the fourth Gerhardsen government from September 25, 1963 until the end of Gerhardsen's term of office on October 12, 1965 .

After leaving the government, he was a judge ( Sorenskriver ) in Setesdal between 1968 and 1980 . After he was a member of the Judiciary Committee between October 1965 and September 1969, he served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee of Storting during his last legislative period from October 1969 to September 1973. During this time he developed a more critical attitude towards NATO than during his ministerial time and was also hostile to both the Greek military dictatorship and the USA as chairman of the Norwegian Committee for Greece (Den norske Hellaskomiteen) between 1968 and 1970 . In addition, he refused full membership for Norway in the European Communities . Between 1975 and 1977 he became a member of the board of directors of Noregs Mållag , an Oslo-based association that advocates the promotion of Nynorsk as a written language and the use of dialect in all areas of the spoken language.

Haugland, who last worked as a lawyer in his birthplace Bjelland from 1980 until his death in 1991, had been married to Edith Høie since 1945.

Publications

  • Juntaen ut av Nato , 1970
  • Dagbok frå Kongens råd , 1986, ISBN 8-2521-2639-1
  • Dagbok frå Løvebakken. Fragment av eit politisk liv , 1988, ISBN 8-2521-3082-8
  • Bølgjer i save. Frå jussens muntre bakgard , co-author Alf Nordhus , 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Haugland, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian lawyer and politician of the labor party
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bjelland , Marnardal , Vest-Agder
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1991
Place of death Marnardal , Vest-Agder