Thorbjørn Jagland

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Thorbjørn Jagland (2007)
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Thorbjørn Jagland (born November 5, 1950 in Drammen ) is a Norwegian politician of the social democratic Arbeiderpartiet (Ap). From 1992 to 2002 he served as party chairman, from 1996 to 2009 he was a member of parliament in Storting , and from 2005 he was President of Parliament. Jagland was the prime minister of his country between October 1996 and October 1997 and the foreign minister from March 2000 to October 2001 . From 2009 to 2019 he was Secretary General of the Council of Europe .

Life

Jagland studied social economy at the University of Oslo until 1975 . He then sat from 1975 to 1983 in the Fylkesting of what was then Buskerud Province . From 1977 to 1981 Jagland also headed the youth organization Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (AUF).

Party leader and Storting MP

In 1986 he was appointed acting party secretary of the Arbeiderpartiet (then Det norske Arbeiderparti ) and the following year he completely took over the post. Jagland eventually held this post until 1992 and was subsequently elected party chairman after Gro Harlem Brundtland retired from this post.

In the parliamentary elections in 1993 Jagland first moved into the Norwegian national parliament in Storting . There he represented the constituency of Buskerud and he was initially a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He also served as his party's parliamentary group leader.

Prime Minister

On October 25, 1996, Thorbjørn Jagland was appointed Prime Minister of Norway (Norwegian: State Minister ) and he formed the Jagland cabinet . He took over the office from his predecessor Gro Harlem Brundtland during the current legislative period after she announced her withdrawal. Jagland held the post until the 1997 general election , which resulted in the Bondevik I bourgeois government . Jagland had previously tied his office to the fact that the Arbeiderpartiet should achieve a better result than in the 1993 election. Since he resigned as prime minister despite what the party considered good results and did not continue the minority government, there was criticism from within the party.

Foreign Minister and Storting President

After his tenure as Prime Minister Jagland returned as a member of the Storting and he became Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the parliamentary group. After his party achieved the worst result for 75 years in the 1999 local elections, he was increasingly criticized as party leader. In February 2000, he announced that he would no longer be his party's prime ministerial candidate. During the legislative period there was finally a change of government and his party colleague Jens Stoltenberg took over the post of Prime Minister on March 17, 2000. Jagland then took over the office of Foreign Minister of Norway in the Stoltenberg I government . The government remained in office until October 19, 2001, when it was replaced by the Bondevik II government.

Jagland then returned to Parliament and he was again the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the group's executive committee. In November 2002 Jens Stoltenberg replaced him as party chairman after a lengthy leadership dispute. Stoltenberg stated in his 2016 autobiography that there had previously been secret meetings discussing how to remove Jagland from the position of party chairman.

Following the 2005 general election , Thorbjørn Jagland was elected President of the Storting, which he remained for the rest of the legislative period until September 30, 2009. In 2008 he announced that he would not run again for a seat in Storting in autumn 2009.

Chairman of the Nobel Committee and Secretary General of the Council of Europe

In January 2009 he became a member and chairman of the committee for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize . On September 29, 2009, he was also elected Secretary General by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He prevailed with 165 to 80 votes with 12 invalid votes against his competitor, the former Polish Prime Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz .

On October 9, 2009, Jagland announced as chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that the incumbent US President Barack Obama would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . The decision was met with divided and muffled echoes around the world. An indiscretion made it known that Jagland and his party colleague Sissel Rønbeck only succeeded in convincing the three other jurors of their proposal after a long discussion.

On January 25, 2010, he presented his political reform plan for the Council of Europe, declaring on the occasion that the Council of Europe could “be a beacon for Europe that carefully monitors developments and tries to foresee new social and political crises”.

During the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 , he and Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, brokered the release of seven military observers from EU countries and five Ukrainian soldiers who had been detained by separatists in Slovyansk on April 25 on charges of espionage for NATO .

On June 24, 2014, Jagland was re- elected for another five years by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In the vote, he received 156 votes and thus prevailed against his competitor, the former German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger . Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger received 93 votes.

After annual re-election, Jagland would have served as chairman of the Nobel Committee until the end of 2015. At the beginning of March 2015, however, it became known, without giving any reason, that he had been voted out of office, which caused a sensation, as in the 115-year history of the committee no chairman had been replaced before he left the committee. With the exception of two interim chairmen, Jagland remains the first former chairman to remain on the committee. After a move by the Norwegian Parliament to the right in the 2013 election, the academic Henrik Syse , son of the former Conservative Prime Minister Jan P. Syse , was elected to the committee in 2015, so that the Conservative politician and previous deputy Kaci Kullmann Five , former Minister under Syse , was elected by the committee as the new chairman. Jagland was only elected vice-chairman by the members.

During his work in the Council of Europe, Jagland was seen as an advocate for the return of Russia, which was excluded in the course of the occupation of Crimea in 2014, and for the controversial concessions made to the government of President Vladimir Putin to regain the right to vote in the Council of Europe in the summer of 2019 to accept. Jagland's term of office ended on September 18, 2019. In June 2019, Croatian Foreign Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić was elected as his successor .

Private

Jagland is married to the journalist Hanne Grotjord, with whom he has two sons.

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Thorbjørn Jagland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thorbjørn Jagland. In: regjeringen.no . June 25, 2014, accessed August 11, 2020 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Biography: Jagland, Thorbjørn. Storting, March 9, 2008, accessed August 11, 2020 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ a b Thorbjørn Jagland . In: Store norske leksikon . February 26, 2020 (Norwegian, snl.no [accessed August 11, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Stoltenberg skriver om strid med Jagland. In: Bergens Tidende. September 30, 2016, accessed on August 11, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  5. ↑ Stoltenberg-bok: Central tillitsvalgte holdt møter bak Jaglands rygg. In: Dagsavisen. September 30, 2016, accessed August 11, 2020 (Norwegian).
  6. ^ "Nobel Prize: Obama reaps criticism and pity" ( Memento of October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), meedia.de, October 9, 2009
  7. ↑ Hannes Gamillscheg: “Dispute about Obama in the Nobel Committee” , Badische Zeitung , October 16, 2009
    “Internal dispute in the Nobel Committee. Majority was against Obama honoring " , taz , October 15, 2009
  8. ↑ Thorbjørn Jagland: “Council of Europe should foresee social and political crises”. Council of Europe, accessed March 29, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Lukin: “Voluntary humanitarian act” , NZZ, May 3, 2014
  10. ^ Karl-Otto Sattler: Jagland remains general secretary , NZZ online, June 24, 2014
  11. ↑ Committee members ( memo of February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the official website of the Norwegian Nobel Commission
  12. ↑ http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/Stanghelle-om-Nobel-vrakingen-av-Jagland-Et-nodvendig-offer-7923319.html
  13. ↑ Nobel Peace Prize: Chairman of the committee removed from tagesspiegel.de, March 3, 2015, accessed January 4, 2017
  14. ↑ a b Claudia von Salzen: "No reason to celebrate" Tagesspiegel from May 4, 2019
  15. ↑ Ukraine crisis: Council of Europe deprives Russia of voting rights. In: FAZ online , April 10, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2015.
  16. ↑ Croatian Marija Pejcinovic Buric is Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Der Standard , June 26, 2019, accessed the same day.
  17. ↑ Heidi Schei Lilleås: Thorbjørn Jagland: - Det er godt å være tilbake i partiet. In: Nettavisen. November 25, 2019, accessed August 11, 2020 (Norwegian).
  18. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  19. ↑ Jagland hedret med the franske æreslegionen. Dagbladet Nyheter, October 28, 2013, accessed October 28, 2013 (Norwegian).
predecessor Office successor
Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway
1996–1997 		Kjell Magne Bondevik
personal data
SURNAME Jagland, Thorbjørn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian social democratic politician, member of the Storting
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Drammen