Olemic Thommessen

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Olaf Michael "Olemic" Thommessen (born April 18, 1956 in Lillehammer ) is a Norwegian politician of the conservative Høyre party . He has been a Member of Parliament in Storting since 2001, and was President of Parliament between October 2013 and March 2018.

Life

Thommessen was born in 1956 to the actress and publishing editor Mona Margareth Lie and the captain Rolf Thommessen. In 1983 he graduated from the University of Oslo in trade law . He then began working as a lawyer, from 1985 as a partner in a law firm. From 1990 to 1994 he worked as a department head for the organization team for the Olympic Games in Lillehammer . He then worked in the cultural sector as director of Kulturarrangement Lillehammer A / S until 2001 .

Thommessen was politically active between 1987 and 1995 as a member of the Lillehammer local parliament. From 1991 to 2001 he was the head of Høyre in what was then the province of Oppland .

In the 2001 parliamentary elections , Thommessen entered the Norwegian national parliament in Storting . There he represented the constituency of Oppland and became a member of the Committee on Family and Culture. After the 2013 election , he was elected President of the Storting, which he remained after the election in September 2017. Before his election as President of Parliament, it was suspected that as his party's cultural policy spokesman he would become Minister of Culture in the Solberg government . On March 15, 2018, his party colleague Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen was elected as his successor. He did not run for re-election after the faction of the Christian Democratic Kristelig Folkeparti (KrF) declared that it did not want to re-elect him. Thommessen was criticized for having exceeded construction costs. In May 2020, he declared that he did not want to run again for a seat in Storting in the 2021 parliamentary election .

Web links

Commons : Olemic Thommessen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Solveig Ruud: Olemic Thommessen sier nei til gjenvalg til Stortinget. In: Aftenposten. May 15, 2020, accessed May 17, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  2. ↑ Thomas Spence, Alf Ole Ask, Marita E. Valvik: Stortingspresident Olemic Thommessen trekker seg etter Stortingets byggeskandale. In: Aftenposten. March 8, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
personal data
SURNAME Thommessen, Olemic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thommessen, Olaf Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician (Høyre)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lillehammer