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Peder Anker (born December 8, 1749 in Christiania , † December 10, 1824 at Gut Bogstad ) was a Norwegian statesman and landowner.

Anker initially studied for two years at the University of Copenhagen . He then went on a multi-year trip abroad with his cousins Carsten and Peter Anker . After his return, Peder Anker acquired the Bogstad estate with the associated forests in 1772 from a relative, Morten Leuch. Over the next few years, Anker expanded the forests considerably to the north and west of the Randsfjord . In 1791 he acquired the Bærum mine and its forests, and in the last years of his life also the Moss and Hakadal iron ore mines .

In 1788 Peder Anker became Danish General War Commissioner and was a member of the field commission during a campaign in Sweden. On January 30, 1789, he became general director of the Akershus monastery . In this position, Anker created large parts of the road network in Norway during this time together with the general road masters Nicolai Fredrik Krohg and Georg Anton Krogh .

In 1800, Anker resigned from this office, but could not tear himself away from the road work. So he planned further main routes in Norway with royal permission. In 1809 Peder Anker was knighted, in 1812 he received the Grand Cross of the Dannebrog Order . In the war years after 1807 he was close to Prince Christian August and was brought into contact with the Swedes through his son-in-law, Count Herman Wedel Jarlsberg . In August 1814, Anker was persuaded by Prince Christian Frederik to meet in Eidsvoll on February 16.

In the elections to the imperial assembly in Eidsvoll he was representative for the Akershus office and was later the first president of the assembly. After the union was established in 1815, Anker became the first Minister of State in Stockholm and head of the State Council Department there. After his son-in-law, Count Wedel, left the government, Anker also asked to leave. He received this on July 1, 1822. He spent the last years of his life on his Bogstad estate. He was a freemason and since 1821 a knight of the order of Charles XIII.

Peder Anker was married to Anna Elisabeth Cold († 1803) from 1772. He had four children with her, but only Karen's parents survived.

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  1. ↑ Nielsen, p. 277
  2. ↑ Nielsen, p. 280
  3. ↑ Peder-Anker-historie ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 8, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lovenskiold.no
  4. ^ Peder Anker ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 8, 2008
  5. ↑ Peder-Anker-historie ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (gives the sums of the purchase prices in kroner), accessed on February 8, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lovenskiold.no
  6. ↑ Henrik Wergeland : Samlede Skrifter . Christiania 1857. Vol. 9, p. 136 (describes Anker's appearance in Eidsvoll)
personal data
SURNAME Anchor, peder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian Minister of State in Stockholm
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1824
Place of death Good Bogstad