Olaf Kortner

Olaf Erling Kortner (born May 10, 1920 in Skien , † January 26, 1998 ) was a Norwegian teacher and politician of the social liberal party Venstre . From August 28 to September 25, 1963, he was the minister of church and education in his country.

Life

Kortner completed his historical and philosophical studies in 1948. From 1948 to 1950 he was chairman of the youth organization Unge Venstre . From 1949 to 1950 he worked as a journalist in the Norwegian division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). He then worked as a teacher in Strinda , Trøndelag Province , until 1955 . He then became secretary in the Norsk Lektorlag teachers' union , of which he was chairman from 1962 to 1965. Between 1951 and 1955 he was also a member of the local parliament of Strinda. In 1957 he began teaching in Oslo , from 1959 to 1963 he was also a censor in the history faculty of the University of Oslo .

On August 28, 1963, Kortner was appointed Minister of Churches and Education in the Lyng government. This ruled, however, only barely a month until September 25, 1963. Both in the parliamentary elections in 1965 and in the 1969 election , he was the first Vararepresentant , ie a substitute representative, for the Oslo constituency . As such, from October 1965 to August 1970, he represented his party colleague Helge Seip , who was local minister and labor minister at that time.

Then he was from 1971 to 1989 so-called Fylkesskolesjef of the then Akershus province . So he had administrative responsibility for the provincial schools. He was then until 1990 teaching director ( Utdanningsdirektør ) of the province.

Web links

• Olaf Kortner at the Storting (Norwegian)
• Olaf Kortner in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)