Leif Granli

Leif Granli (born September 25, 1909 in Hegra , Stjørdal , Nord-Trøndelag ; † March 7, 1988 ) was a Norwegian politician of the Arbeiderpartiet , who was a member of the Storting between 1945 and 1973 , and from 1963 to 1965 Minister of Agriculture in the Gerhardsen IV government and was President of Storting between 1972 and 1973.

Life

Granli, son of the carpenter Paul Troseth and Severine Buland, has been involved in the Labor Party since the early 1930s and was chairman of the Ap in Frol between 1931 and 1933 and then from 1935 to 1947 chairman of the Ap in Inntrøndelag. From 1933 until the beginning of the German occupation of Norway in 1940 he was a member of the Frol municipal council. After attending the workers' college in Malmøya, he worked as a farmer on his own farm from 1935 to 1940, and from 1937 to 1940 journalist for the daily Arbeider-Avisen in Trondheim , before he was editor of the Hardanger Folkeblad in Odda from 1940 to 1941 was. In addition, from 1939 to 1948 he was a member of the regional executive committee of the Arbeiderpartiet. After the end of the Second World War in 1945 he was again a member of the municipal council of Frol, to which he belonged until 1949.

In the election of October 8, 1945 , Granli was elected as a candidate for the Arbeiderpartiet for the first time as a member of the Storting and represented the interests of Fylke Nord-Trøndelag until the election of September 10, 1973 . During his parliamentary membership he was a member of the Judiciary Committee between December 1945 and January 1954 and then from January 1954 to January 1958 a member of the Finance and Customs Committee, of which he was secretary between January 1958 and September 1963. He was also a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 1957 to 1973 and a member of the Levanger City Council between 1959 and 1967 .

On September 25, 1963, Granli was appointed by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen as Minister of Agriculture (Landbruksminister) in his fourth government , to which he belonged until the end of Gerhardsen's term of office on October 12, 1965.

Thereafter, Granli was a member of the Agriculture Committee from October 1965 to September 1969. He was between May 9, 1966 and May 13, 1966 and again from October 2, 1967 to October 1, 1972 Vice President of Storting. From October 1967 to October 1973 he was a member of the executive committee of the Ap parliamentary group in Storting. He was also a member of the Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs between October 1967 and September 1973 and, at the same time, a member of the Defense Committee from October 1969 and March 1971. On October 2, 1972, he succeeded Bernt Ingvaldsen as President of the Storting and held this office until September 30, 1973, after which Guttorm Hansen became his successor.

In 1972 Granli succeeded Dagfinn Sakshaug as District President (Fylkesmann) of the province of North Trøndelag and held this position until 1979, after which he was replaced by Ola H. Kveli . In addition, from 1974 to 1978 he held the position of chairman of the advisory committee for the management and localization of problems in state institutions and from 1976 to 1977 chairman of the committee for the improvement of the safety regulations of nuclear power plants.

publication

• Nuclear power and safety , Universitetsforlaget, 1979

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Storting
• Short biography in the store norske leksikon