Jonas Gahr Støre

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Jonas Gahr Støre (born August 25, 1960 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian politician of the social democratic Arbeiderpartiet (Ap). He has been a member of parliament in Storting since 2009, and has been party chairman since 2014. From October 2005 to September 2012 he was the foreign minister of his country, then the health and welfare minister until October 2013 .

Life

Jonas Gahr Støre was born in 1960 to the ship broker Ulf Jonas Støre and Unni Gahr. He grew up in the affluent Ris district to the west of the city of Oslo . Støre is the grandson of the industrialist Jonas Henry Støre and the great-grandson of the conservative politician Paul Edvart Støre . After graduating from secondary school in 1979, he attended Sjøkrigsskolen in Bergen , a college of the Norwegian naval forces, until 1980 . Between 1980 and 1981 he was a lieutenant ( fenrik ) in the Norwegian Navy . Støre then studied political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris until 1985 . After completing his studies, he worked in 1986 as a teaching fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School and from 1986 to 1989 as a researcher at Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt , on the Scenarian 2000 project . In 1988 he applied for a position as political advisor in the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party, but turned it down when he was offered the position.

Worked in the State Chancellery and State Secretary

From 1989 to 1995 Støre worked as a special representative in the Statsministerens kontor , the Norwegian State Chancellery. He worked with Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland , among others . During this time he was responsible for European issues, among other things, and participated in negotiations for Norway's potential membership in the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA). In 1995 Støre finally joined the Arbeiderpartiet. From 1995 Støre worked as a department director in the State Chancellery. In 1998 he started working under Brundtland at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva .

On March 17, 2000, under the new Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, he became Chief of Staff and State Secretary in the State Minister's Office. He stayed in this position until he left the government on October 19, 2001. In 2002 he started working for Econ Analyze . He then served as Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross from 2003 to 2005 .

Foreign and Health Ministers

On October 17, 2005, Jonas Gahr Støre was appointed Foreign Minister in the newly formed Stoltenberg II government. On January 14, 2008, during a visit abroad to Afghanistan , a suicide bombing occurred in the hotel where Støre and his delegation were staying, in which six people lost their lives. Støre survived the attack unharmed. The then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon testified below that the foreign minister was the target. As foreign minister he worked, among other things, towards stronger Nordic cooperation and expanded cooperation with Russia in the Barents Sea .

In the parliamentary elections in 2009 Støre moved into the Norwegian national parliament Storting for the first time . He was elected to parliament for the Oslo constituency, but because of his membership in the government he had to suspend his mandate. He was represented for the entire legislative period by his party colleague Truls Wickholm . On September 21, 2012, Jonas Gahr Støre was finally appointed as the new Minister of Health and Welfare as part of a ministerial castling . He kept the ministerial office until October 16, 2013, when the Conservative Solberg government took over after the 2013 Storting election .

Member of the Storting and party chairman

Støre took over his parliamentary mandate for the first time in October 2013 and he was initially deputy chairman of the finance committee. In June 2014 he moved to the Foreign and Defense Committee during the current legislative period. In addition, he became the new parliamentary group leader of the Arbeiderpartiet group in June 2014.

On June 14, 2014, he replaced Jens Stoltenberg as party leader of the Labor Party after he had been appointed NATO Secretary General. At the beginning of his term in office, Støre declared that he wanted to change his party's climate policy and now want to concentrate more on environmental protection in Norway instead of buying up tropical rainforests and carbon credits like his predecessor Stoltenberg .

In the parliamentary elections in September 2017 , Støre was his party's top candidate and thus a potential candidate for the office of prime minister in a left-wing coalition. Although the Arbeiderpartiet won the majority of the votes in the election, despite a decline, the result was not enough to form a left-wing government. Thus, the conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg remained in office. Støre was again chairman of the parliamentary group in Storting for the 2017-2021 legislative period and he remained in the Foreign and Defense Committee.

In the parliamentary elections in September 2021 , Støre was again the top candidate of his party. Despite another small decline and the second worst result in 100 years, the Arbeiderpartiet again achieved the most votes in the election.

Political positions

Støre is assigned to the right wing of the Arbeiderpartiet. When he joined Jens Stoltenberg's cabinet in 2005 , he was perceived as part of a group of "managers from the [Oslo] West End".

Controversy

Among other things, the decision to recognize the Hamas government in Palestine in 2007 was controversial during his tenure as foreign minister . In 2011 it became known that Støre had telephone contact with Hamas leader Chalid Maschal during this time . Jonas Gahr Støre later admitted that this contact actually existed.

During the 2017 election campaign, he was criticized from some quarters when it became known that illegal workers were working on renovations on Støre's property in 2011. He defended himself, among other things, by the fact that one of his employees concluded the contract with the craftsmen and tax payments were agreed upon.

Private

Støre is married to the sociologist and gestalt therapist Marit Slagsvold and has three sons who attended the Oslo Waldorf School . With a fortune of around 64 million Norwegian kroner (the equivalent of around 6 million euros), he is considered wealthy, the majority of his fortune comes from the sale of a company belonging to his grandfather. At the beginning of his political career, his social background sometimes led to doubts about his social democratic attitude in the party and in the labor movement.

factories

  • 1987: Scenarian 2000. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo
  • 2003: Human Security . Harvard, Boston
  • 2003: Norge, en Reise Verdt? . Kagge, Oslo
  • 2004: Barents 2015 . Econ, Oslo
  • 2008: Å gjøre en forskjell: refleksjoner fra en norsk utenriksminister. Cappelen Dam, Oslo
  • 2014: I bevegelse . Cappelen Dam, Oslo

Web links

Commons : Jonas Gahr Støre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  5. ^ Jonas Gahr Støre , European Parliament
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  10. ^ Alf Bjarne Johnsen, Kyrre Lien, Cato Husabø Fossen: Støre: Jeg gleder meg. In: Verdens Gang. June 14, 2014, accessed February 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
  11. ↑ Valgresultat for Norge. Retrieved February 6, 2019 (Norwegian (Bokmål)).
  12. ↑ Reinhard Wolff: New government in Norway: three women are at the helm . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 15, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 6, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Slik stemte vi. In: NRK. September 14, 2021, accessed September 14, 2021 (Norwegian (Bokmål)).
  14. ↑ Jens måtte drop «direktørvennene» . In: Dagsavisen . Retrieved September 14, 2021. “På rekke and rad advarte talerne Jens Stoltenberg mot å velge“ blåruss ”and“ vestkantdirektører ”which was deltatt in valgkampen and partisbeidet. Criticism was saved by Grete Faremo Hanne Harlem and Jonas Gahr Støre and the bunnet in the frykt for at the school lede partiets course til høyre. " 
  15. ↑ Støre har hatt hemmelige velvet med Hamas. January 27, 2011, accessed February 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
  16. ↑ Snakket direct med Hamas leather. In: NRK. January 27, 2011, accessed September 12, 2021 (Norwegian (Bokmål)).
  17. ↑ Finansavisen: jobbet svart på Jonas Gahr Stores brygge. Retrieved February 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
  18. ↑ Støres verdivalg . In: VG . Retrieved September 14, 2021. 
  19. ↑ Har Jens, Jonas og kongefamilien blitt hjernevasket av okkultisme? . In: Dagbladet . Retrieved September 13, 2021. 
  20. ↑ Alexander Klanderud: Erna tjener mest og erikest i regjeringen. In: TV October 2 , 2016, accessed September 14, 2021 (Norwegian).
  21. ↑ Støres reelle formue: Minst 85 million. Retrieved February 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Støre, Jonas Gahr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician
BIRTH DATE August 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo