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Thorstein This (between 1899 and 1925)

Halvor Thorstein Romdal this (born December 7, 1862 in Kristiania , † September 4, 1925 in Larkollen ) was a Norwegian lawyer , newspaper editor and politician for the conservative Høyre party .

Life

This was born in December 1862 as the son of Søren These (1816-1897) and Maren S. Hellerud (1822-1903) in what is now Oslo. He spent his childhood in Enerhaugen . There he finished his secondary education in 1881 . He finished his studies with Studiosus at the University of Oslo . From 1888 to 1890 he worked as editor- in- chief at Bergens Aftenblad . During the semester he also worked as a journalist for Fædrelandet , a Danish liberal newspaper. In March 1896 he married Barbara Matzau Gjerding (1874–1933) in Bergen . They had six children together, including two sons, Halvor Dies and Einar These (1897–1994), who both later became journalists . Thorstein had a twin brother , Søren Einar Munch, who was a pastor . Through him he was the uncle of TV presenter Thorstein Dies Jr.

In 1898 he was hired as general secretary for the conservative Høyre party. When Emil Stang retired from the party leadership, he was elected alongside Yngvar Nielsen and Frederik Bætzmann as the political editor of Bergens Aftenblad . From 1900 he became a lawyer and returned to his law firm . From 1904 he had access to justice in the Supreme Court of Norway . He settled in Aker, where he was elected to the local council. He founded the local newspaper Akersposten , which he ran until 1908. He turned his back on Aker and was again an editor at Aftenposten . When the then editor-in-chief Amandus Schibsted died in 1913, he became deputy editor-in-chief and shortly thereafter also editor-in-chief. Thorstein This was editor-in-chief until his death in 1925 while on vacation in Larkollen.

Web links

• Halvor Thorstein Romdal this in Norsk biografisk leksikon