Ole Myrvoll

Ole Myrvoll (born May 18, 1911 in Kragerø , Fylke Telemark , † July 16, 1988 ) was a Norwegian economist , university professor and politician of the social liberal Venstre (V) and later of Det Nye Folkepartiet (DNF), who was 1963 Minister for Wages and Prices in the government of Prime Minister John Lyng and between 1965 and 1971 Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Per Borten .

He was also mayor of Bergen from 1972 to 1973 . In the election of July 10, 1973 , he was elected as the first representative of the DNF to be a member of the Storting and also remained the only elected parliamentarian of this party, which was dissolved in 1988, after he had lost his seat in the election on September 12, 1977 .

Life

Studies and university professor

Myrvoll, son of the master shoemaker Kristian Kristian Jensen and his wife Marie Thorsen, began studying economics in 1931 after attending school and graduating from commercial high school , which he graduated in 1935 as candidatus oeconomices (Cand. Oecon.). In addition, he became an assistant at Norges Bank , the central bank of Norway, in 1931 and, after graduating from banking school in 1936, completed postgraduate studies at the University of Virginia , which he completed in 1936 with a Master of Arts (MA). In 1939 he took up a job as a secretary at the state broadcasting company NRK (Norsk rikskringkasting) , but in 1940 he switched to the Norwegian clearing house as an agent before receiving a scholarship in 1942 at the Norwegian Commercial College (Norges Handelshøyskole) , which was founded in 1936 .

After he held a substitute professorship between 1947 and 1957 and completed his doctorate in 1957 as a Doctor oeconomiae (Dr. oecon.) With a dissertation entitled Studier i arbeidslønnsteorien , Myrvoll took over the professorship at the Chair of Economic Theory at the Norwegian Business School in 1957 . He was also visiting professor at Colgate University in New York between 1958 and 1959 and at Bowdoin College in Maine in 1962 .

Local politicians and ministers

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he began his political career in local politics after the Second World War and was a member of the city council of Bergen for the first time between 1947 and 1955. At the same time he acted between 1949 and 1957 as chairman of the working committee of Fylke Hordaland , of which he was vice-chairman from 1958 to 1965.

On August 28, 1963, Myrvoll was appointed by Prime Minister John Lyng as Minister for Wages and Prices (Lønns- og Prisminister) in his government, which he belonged to the end of Lyng's term only four weeks later on September 25, 1963.

In the election of September 13, 1965 , Myrvoll was elected as a candidate of the left-liberal Venstre for Bergen to the vice-member of the Storting and held this position until the election on July 10, 1973, where he was the newly founded, also left-liberal since December 9, 1972 Det Nye Folkepartiet belonged to.

Myrvoll was appointed Finance Minister ( Finance Minister ) in his government on October 12, 1965 by Prime Minister Per Borten . He held this ministerial office until the end of Borten's term of office on March 17, 1971.

Mayor of Bergen and Storting member

After leaving the government, Myrvoll returned to teaching at the Norwegian Business School and was also chairman of the Sparkasse's planning committee from 1971 to 1974 and chairman of the financial policy committee from 1971 to 1977.

In 1972 Myrvoll succeeded Ragnar Juell Morken as mayor of Bergen and held this post for a year until he was replaced by the previous Vice-Mayor Eilert Eilertsen from the conservative Høyre in 1973. He was also between 1972

As the first representative of the DNF, he was elected member of the Storting on July 10, 1973 and represented the interests of Fylke Hordaland. Myrvoll also remained the only parliamentarian of this party, which was dissolved in 1988, after he had lost his mandate in the election on September 12, 1977. He was also parliamentary leader of the DNF in the Storting, as the then party chairman Magne Lerheim , who also came from Venstre, was not a member of the Storting.

In addition, he was again a member of the city council of Bergen between 1974 and 1975 and vice-chairman of the state oil company Statoil (Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap A / S) from 1974 to 1982 . Between 1975 and 1979 he served as Vice-Chairman of the Norwegian Fisheries Research Council NFFR (Norges Fiskeriforskningsråd) , of which he had been a member since 1972, and from 1977 to 1983 as Chairman of the Directorate for Development Aid NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) . Most recently in 1984 he also became chairman of the examination board of the banking academy, which in 1994 became part of today's BI Norwegian Business School .

Publications

• Forskyvninger av prisstruktur i Norge , Bergen 1952
• Studier i arbeidslønnnnsteorien , dissertation, Bergen 1956

Background literature

• Petter Jakob Bjerve: Økonomi og politikk , Oslo 1971

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Storting
• Biography in the store norske leksikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The previous party chairman and minister Helge Seip also represented the DNF in Storting, but was elected as a candidate for Venstre in the 1969 election, from which he resigned on December 9, 1972 and joined the DNF.