Sverre Walter Rostoft

Sverre Walter Rostoft

Sverre Walter Rostoft (born December 12, 1912 in Glemmen , Fylke Østfold ; † April 26, 2001 ) was a Norwegian economic manager and politician of the Høyre , who was a member of the Storting for eight years and, between 1965 and 1971, Minister of Industry in the government of Prime Minister Per Borten was.

Life

Economic manager and local politician

Andersen, son of the captain Georg Walter Andersen and his wife Marta Walgjerta Hansen, graduated from business school in 1930 and studied philology between 1935 and 1937 , which he did not complete. He then worked from 1937 to 1944 as a secretary at the shipyard Nylands Mekaniske verksted in Oslo , and then from 1944 to 1945 as an office manager at the shipyard KMV (Kristiansands Mekaniske Verksted) .

In 1945 he became managing director of KMV and remained in this position until 1979. At the same time, he had been working as a dispatcher at Aluminumsbåter A / S, which is also based in Kristiansand , from 1946 and also completed a law degree , which he completed in 1947 as Candidatus juris (Cand. Jur.). He was also active as president of the Rotary Club of Kristiansand between 1949 and 1950 .

At the beginning of the 1950s, Rostoft also began his political career in local politics and was a member of Oddernes' municipal council between 1951 and 1955 . He was also a member of the central board of Høyre between 1954 and 1970 and was also chairman of the board of the Vest-Agder electricity company since 1954. In addition, from 1952 he was CEO of the Danish company Alboats A / S in Helsingør .

Storting member and president of the industry association

In the election of October 12, 1953 he was a candidate for the conservative Høyre and represented the interests of Fylke Vest-Agder until the election on October 6, 1957 . At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he was between January 11, 1954 and January 10, 1958 a member of the parliamentary committee of the Høyre and from May 19 to May 31, 1954 secretary of Odelsting , one of the then still existing departments of the Storting.

In 1962 Rostoft, who had already been a member of its main board between 1957 and 1960, succeeded A. Monrad-Aas as President of the Norwegian Industry Association (Norges Industrieforbund) and held this position until he was replaced by Nils Fredrik Aall in 1965.

Rostoft, the 1965 Knight 1st Class of Olav's Order was, was in the election of 13 September 1965 elected again as a representative of Vest-Agder Fylke and belonged to the Storting another four years until the election on 8 September 1969 to .

Industry minister and economic manager

A short time later he was appointed by Prime Minister Per Borten as Minister of Industry (Industry Minister) in his government on October 12, 1965 and held this ministerial office until the end of Borten 's term of office on March 17, 1971.

After leaving the government, Rostoft, who was Governor of the Rotary District of Norway between 1971 and 1972, took on numerous other functions as an economic manager and was, among other things, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hunsfos Fabrikker paper mill in Vennesla from 1971 and 1972 , between 1971 and 1985 Chairman of the Board of Management of Oil Industry Services and from 1972 to 1982 Chairman of the Board of Directors of Den norske Creditbank in Kristiansand.

In addition, Bostoft, who became the commander of the Order of Dannebrog in 1973, acted as vice-chairman of the supervisory board of A / S Sagapart , the main shareholder of the mineral oil company Saga Petroleum , between 1973 and 1979, as well as chairman of the works meeting of Hunsfos Fabrikker from 1973 and from 1982 also as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the District College of Agder . In 1987 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

publication

• Samarbeidet mellom statene og næringslivet , Bergen 1963

Web links

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