Oddmund Mykleust

Oddmund Mykleust (born April 21, 1915 in Sandøy , Fylke Møre og Romsdal , † September 14, 1972 ) was a Norwegian fisherman and politician of the Senterpartiet , who was Minister for Fisheries between 1965 and 1968 in the government of Prime Minister Per Borten .

Life

Mykleust, son of the fisherman Kristoffer L. Mykleust and his wife Dorthea Uri, graduated from the adult education center in 1936 and then worked as a fisherman until 1965.

After the end of the Second World War he began his political career in local politics in 1945 and was a member of the Haram Commune Council between 1945 and 1953 . He was then chairman of the Mykleust fishing league, which he co-founded in 1937, between 1953 and 1954, and chairman of the fishing league of Sunnmøre , a southern coastal region in Fylke Møre og Romsdal , from 1954 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1965 . He was also a member of the Haram parish council between 1963 and 1965.

On October 12, 1965, he was appointed by Prime Minister Per Borten as Minister of Fisheries (Fiskerminister) in his government and held this office until he was replaced on November 8, 1968 by Einar Moxnes , who had been acting Minister for Fisheries since March 22, 1968 had dressed. Most recently he was chairman of the Sandøy Fisheries Committee until his death in 1972.

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