Thor Listau

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Thor Listau (born June 3, 1938 in Svolvær , Nordland ; † March 22, 2014 ) was a Norwegian politician of the conservative Høyre , who was a member of the Storting for twelve years and fisheries minister in the Willoch government between 1981 and 1985 .

Life

Professional uses in the armed forces and local politicians

Listau, son of the fish feed producer Magnus Listau and the housewife Johanna Jakobsen, graduated from the army technical college for telecommunications technology between 1954 and 1958 and was then a sergeant and radio mechanic in the telecommunications company of the Northern Brigade of the Norwegian Army and then from 1960 to 1961 Assistant to the quartermaster in the telecommunications battalion in Trøndelag .

In 1961, after a short period of employment as a radio mechanic in the 3rd Dragoons regiment, he became a technician in the armed forces' test station in Kirkenes , where he rose one after the other until 1985 to the position of technical manager, operations manager and finally manager of the station. During this time, he completed an electronics course at the University of Denver in 1963 and from 1966 to 1970 various courses in training facilities of the Norwegian armed forces and some technical courses with the US Air Force .

Listau began his political career in the youth association of the conservative Høyre ( Unge Høyre ). After he was chairman of Unge Høyre in Kirkenes between 1965 and 1967, he was chairman of the youth organization of Høyre in Finnmark county from 1967 to 1969 .

Shortly thereafter, he began his involvement in local politics , where he was initially a member of the local council between 1967 and 1971 and a member of the local council of Sør-Varanger , a Norwegian municipality in Finnmark county bordering on Russia , from 1971 to 1975 . In addition, he was active from 1968 to 1969 as chairman of the sports club FK Vigør.

Member of the Storting and Minister of Fisheries

In the parliamentary elections of September 10, 1973 Listau was elected for the first time as a candidate of the Høyre for a member of the Storting and represented the interests of Fylke Finnmark in this until the parliamentary elections in 1985. During this time he was not only chairman of the local political electoral committee of the Høyre from 1974 to 1977, but also a member of numerous other political bodies of his party.

During this time he was also a member of the Storting Committee for Shipping and Fisheries between 1973 and 1981. At the same time he was from January 1978 to January 1980 a member of the Storting delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO .

On October 14, 1981 Listau was appointed Minister of State for Fisheries ( Statsråd, Fiskeridepartementet ) in his government by State Minister (Prime Minister) Kåre Willoch and held this ministerial office until his replacement on October 4, 1985 by Eivind Kristofer Riding from the Senterpartiet . During this time Steinar Eriksen acted as his representative in the Storting.

Retirement from politics and activities in the private sector

After leaving politics, Listau was chairman of the state power plants ( Statskraftverkene ) between 1985 and 1991 . In 1986 he became head of the State Grain Administration Office ( Statens Kornforretning ) and was also head of the Office for Raw Material Prices for Agricultural Products. During this time, 1988 completed a course in business administration at Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt (BI) in Oslo . Even after leaving government and parliament, he remained closely connected to the Høyre and was chairman of the board of directors of his party's educational organization ( Høyres Studienforbund ) from 1988 to 1995 .

After that he was director of the reorganized grain administration ( Statkorn ) between 1991 and 1995 and subsequently acted as chairman of the board of Statkorn Holding A / S between 1995 and 1996. Between 1995 and 2005 he was also the organizational director of Statkorn Holding A / S and of Cermaq A / S, a salmon and trout farming company . During this time he also studied at the Norwegian Institute for Management and Administration NILA ( Norsk institutt for ledelse og administrasjon ) between 1993 and 1994 .

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SURNAME Listau, Thor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian conservative politician, member of the Storting and economic manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Svolvær , Nordland
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2014