Thorstein Petersen

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Thorstein Petersen

Thorstein Petersen (born August 21, 1899 in Tórshavn ; died May 4, 1960 ) was a Faroese lawyer, bank director and politician ( Vinnuflokkurin and Fólkaflokkurin ). He was a member of the Faroese Løgting and the Danish Folketing as well as Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Faroese state government .

education and profession

The son of Sýslumaður from Eysturoy Thomas J. Petersen first went to school in Tórshavn and later in Denmark, where he passed his school leaving examination in 1917 at the Sorø Akademi . He then studied law and finished his studies as cand. Jur. in 1928. He then returned to the Faroe Islands and initially worked as a lawyer in Tórshavn from 1928 to 1932. He then became director of the insurance company "Trygd" in 1932 and the first director of the commercial bank for the marine industry ( Sjóvinnubankin ) in Tórshavn, which he co-founded . He resigned this position shortly after joining the government as Minister on January 1, 1951. The subsequent discovery of irregularities in the management of the bank was followed by years of litigation over several instances, at the end of which he got away with a minor sentence in 1957. However, because of the conviction, he had to give up the mandate he had won in May 1957.

politics

Together with Christian Holm Jacobsen and other business people, he founded the bourgeois-conservative party Vinnuflokkurin in 1935 as an alternative to Javnaðarflokkurin, which had been created a few years earlier . Petersen and Holm Jacobsen were elected first and second chairmen of the new party. At the end of 1939, the party merged with renegades from Sjálvstýrisflokkurin to Jóannes Patursson in the new Fólkaflokkurin party . Petersen was Løgtings member for the Fólkaflokkurin from 1940 to 1954. At the same time he was from 1943 to 1946 and from July to December 1950 President of Parliament. From 1943 to 1950 he was also a member of the Danish Folketing. From 1946 to 1951 he was also chairman of his party. Since the end of 1950, he finally sat as minister and deputy prime minister in the state government Kristian Djurhuus I . However, he lost his ministerial post in the government again in September 1951 when he discovered the irregularities at his previous bank.

family

Thorstein Petersen was the son of Sýslumaður Thomas Juul Petersen from Streymnes and his wife Valborg, née Bærentsen, from Tórshavn. Petersen married Anna Olsen from Tórshavn in January 1932. The couple lived in the Faroese capital.

Others

Petersen was Norwegian Consul for the Faroe Islands from 1934 and Norwegian Consul General from 1942.

In his function as parliamentary president and chairman of the largest party in parliament, Thorstein Petersen announced the independence of the Faroe Islands on Wednesday, September 18, a few days after the referendum on September 14, 1946 . However, this declaration of independence was not recognized by the other parties in Løgting or by the Danish government in Copenhagen.

In 1957 Thorstein Petersen suffered a serious head injury in a fall on the ferry "Tjaldur" on the way to Denmark and then spent a long time in an Oslo hospital. He died in May 1960 of the long-term effects of this injury.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b PETERSEN Thorstein Bankdirektør , Kraks Blaa Bog , rosekamp.dk (in Danish)
  2. ↑ a b Føroyar og bankarnir í 100 ár. Page 25 . banknordik.fo. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. (in Faroese)
  3. ↑ Højesteret idønte Th. Petersen 40 dages fængsel , Dimmalætting , June 29, 1957, infomedia.dk (in Danish)
  4. ↑ Hægstirætturin fríkendi Th. Petersen fyri áklagunar um mandatsvik , Dagblaðið , July 2, 1957, infomedia.dk (in Faroese)
  5. ↑ a b c Føroyar og bankarnir í 100 ár. Page 43 . banknordik.fo. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. (in Faroese)
  6. ↑ Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit, bind 2 (2002), page 339. (PDF) . logting.fo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. (in Faroese)
  7. ↑ Løgtingið kom saman áðrenn ætlað, mikudagin, vegna .... , Dagblaðið , 20 Sept. 1946, infomedia.dk (in Faroese)
  8. ↑ Kunnur stjórnmálamaður í Færeyjum látinn , timarit.is, May 6, 1960 (in Icelandic)
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Thorstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese lawyer, bank director and politician (Vinnuflokkurin and Fólkaflokkurin) as well as Minister in the state government of the Faroe Islands
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Tórshavn , Faroe Islands
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1960