Gates Austad

Tore Austad (born April 8, 1935 in Skedsmo , Akershus ) is a Norwegian politician of the conservative Høyre , who was twelve years a member of the Storting and between 1981 and 1983 Minister of Church and Education in the Willoch government .

Life

Teacher, professor and local politician

Austad, son of the quartermaster Leiv Austad and the housewife Ragnhild Kjølen, began studying after attending school in 1953 and joined the Navy in 1955 , where, after attending the Naval War School ( Sjøkrigsskole ), he served as a sea ​​lieutenant until 1958 . He then continued his studies, was a consultant for textbooks at the Council for the Secondary School and lecturer at the Pedagogical Seminar. During his activity from 1961 to 1964 as a lecturer at the commercial high school in Drammen , he acquired the academic degree of Candidatus philologiæ (Cand. Philol.) In 1962.

Austad then took over a professorship for the Norwegian language at the University of Chicago in 1964 , before returning to Norway from 1966 to 1977 as a lecturer at the cathedral school in Kristiansand , founded in 1686 . Between 1967 and 1975 he was also a lecturer at the district college of Agder and since 1972 examiner for Norwegian at the University of Oslo .

Austad, who was chairman of Høyre in Oddernes between 1970 and 1972 , began his political career in local politics from 1971 to 1975 as a member of the city council and then until 1979 as a member of the municipal council of Kristiansand. He also served as chairman of the Kristiansand school council between 1971 and 1977.

Member of the Storting as well as minister of church and education

In the parliamentary elections of September 12, 1977 Austad was elected as a candidate of the Høyre for the first time a member of the Storting and represented the interests of Fylke Vest-Agder until the parliamentary election in 1989 . After he was a member of the Storting Committee for Church and Education from October 1977 to October 1980, he served as its chairman between October 1980 and September 1981.

On October 14, 1981, Austad was appointed Minister of State (Prime Minister) Kåre Willoch as Minister of Churches and Education ( Statsråd, Kirke- og undervisningsdepartementet ) in his government and held this ministerial office until his replacement on June 8, 1983 by Kjell Magne Bondevik from the Kristelig Folkeparti (KrF). During this time Bjørn Stordrange worked as his representative in Storting.

Subsequently, Austad, who was a member of the board of the Høyre faction in Storting between June 1983 and September 1989 , was a member of the Storting Committee for Transport and Communication from June to October 1983, then the Justice Committee, and most recently between October 1985 and September 1989 a member of the Storting Committee for Defense as well as for elections. He was also a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations from January 1984 to September 1985 and a member of the Storting Group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) between October 1985 and September 1989 .

Commitment to cultural policy and a return to local politics

After Austad left the government, he was chairman of the advisory board of the Nordic Institute for Åland between 1984 and 1992 . Furthermore, since 1986 he has been chairman of the cultural committee of the European Movement International in Norway and from 1986 to 1989 he was chairman of the Joint Council for Science and Parliament.

After leaving parliament in 1989 he was again a lecturer at the Kristiansand Cathedral School. At the same time he acted from 1994 to 1998 as chairman of the supervisory board of Høyres Studienforbund , the educational organization of his party, and from 1995 to 1999 as chairman of the cultural advisory board of Kristiansand.

At the same time, he continued to be involved in local politics and was again a member of the city council between 1995 and 1999 and again a member of the Kristiansand council from 1999 to 2007. During this time he was also chairman of the Høyre faction in Kristiansand City Council from 1999 to 2007.

Fonts

• En skole for alle , Oslo 1981
• Mål and virkemidler i skolen , 1983
• Flasken and masks: litterære tekster om rus for videregående skole , Oslo 1993

Web links

• Biography on the Storting homepage (Norwegian)
• Entry in the store norske leksikon