Matthías Mathiesen

Matthías Árnason Mathiesen (born August 6, 1931 in Hafnarfjörður ; died November 9, 2011 ) was an Icelandic politician . He held several ministerial posts; Among other things, he was the country's foreign minister from 1986 to 1987 .

biography

Matthías A. Mathiesen was born in Hafnarfjörður in 1931. He was the son of the pharmacist and later businessman Árni Matthías Mathiesen and his wife Svava E. Mathiesen, daughter of the Althing MP Einar Þorgilsson . In 1956 he married Sigrún Þ. Mathiesen, with whom he had three children. The son Árni M. Mathiesen , born in 1958 , also became a politician and was Iceland's finance minister between 2005 and 2009, his brother Þorgils Óttar Mathiesen (* 1962) is a former handball player.

After graduating from high school in 1951, Matthías Mathiesen studied law at the University of Iceland until 1957 and then worked from 1957 to 1958 as an employee of the Ministry of Labor and from 1958 to 1967 as a manager in the savings bank of Hafnarfjörður. In 1961 he was admitted as a lawyer before the district court ( héraðsdómslögmaður ) and in 1967 as hæstaréttarlögmaður before the supreme court of Hæstiréttur . From 1967 to 1974 and from 1991 he ran his own law firm. He was a member of the Independence Party and was elected to the Icelandic parliament Althing in 1959, of which he was a member until 1991. On August 28, 1974, he became the country's finance minister in the cabinet of Geir Hallgrímsson ; on September 1, 1978 he resigned from this post. From 1983 to October 1985 he was Minister of Commerce, Minister of Statistics and Minister for Cooperation in Nordic Affairs in Steingrímur Hermannsson's cabinet . On January 24, 1986 he became Foreign Minister of the country under Steingrímur Hermannsson, later also under Þorsteinn Pálsson, and resigned from this post on July 8, 1987 to accept the appointment of Minister of Transport and Minister for Cooperation in Nordic Affairs. His term of office lasted until September 17th, 1988, after which he held the office until September 28th.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Biography of Árni M. Mathiesen on the website of the Icelandic parliament Althing; accessed on April 21, 2020.
2. ^ Biography of Matthías Á. Mathiesen on the website of the Icelandic parliament Althing; accessed on April 21, 2020.

Web links

• Biography of Matthías Á. Mathiesen on the website of the Icelandic Parliament Althing (Icelandic)

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