Wollert Konow
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Wollert Konow (born August 16, 1845 in Stend ( Fana , today in Bergen ); † March 15, 1924 ibid) was a Norwegian politician of the Venstre and later the Liberal Left Party (Frisinnede Venstre) and Prime Minister (State Minister).
Life
The grandson of the Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger grew up on an estate and from 1865 studied law , which he did not graduate. Instead, he was director of the adult education center in Halsnøy ( Sunnhordland ) from 1868 to 1872 , before taking over the management of his father's estate in 1873.
He began his political career as a candidate for Venstre in 1877 when he was first elected as a member of the Storting , in which he initially represented the interests of the Søndre Bergenhus district until 1879 . Between 1880 and 1888 he was again a member of the Storting for three terms and as such from 1884 to 1887 President of the Odelsting and then in 1888 President of the Storting. In addition, he was mainly between 1880 and 1901 mayor of Fana. From 1897 to 1899 he was again a member of the Storting. In 1899 he was also a Norwegian delegate to the Hague Peace Conference . After more than a decade outside politics, he was re-elected member of the Storting in 1909 for the newly founded Liberal Left Party (Frisinnede Venstre) . For a short time he was again President of the Storting.
Immediately thereafter, Konow became Prime Minister on February 2, 1910 as the successor to Gunnar Knudsen , whose Venstre had suffered a devastating election defeat, and formed a coalition government made up of the Liberal Left Party and the Right Party. At the same time Konow took over the management of the budget ministry (revisjonsdepartementet) and briefly the agriculture ministry . One of the main topics of his tenure was the national language dispute (målsaken) over a Norwegian written language by the cultural organization Noregs Ungdomslag . The language dispute was one of the reasons for the government crisis that led to the resignation of Konov's government on February 20, 1912. The chairman of the conservative Høyre party, Jens Bratlie , formed his new government together with the liberals.
From June 13, 1913 to August 21, 1922 he was a vice member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as a representative of Francis Hagerup , before he was then a member of this committee from August 21, 1922 until his death.
To distinguish his cousin of the same name Wollert Konow (1847-1932), who was also a member of parliament and Minister of Agriculture, he received the suffix Søndre Bergenhus (SB, today's Hordaland) in everyday parliamentary life, while his cousin received the suffix Hedmark .
literature
- Wollert Konow . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 14 : Kikarskten – Kroman . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1911, Sp. 789-790 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Tabular CV
- Members of the Norwegian government 1858 to 1945
- Leiv Mjeldheim: Ministeriet Konow 1910–1912; a study in parliamentarism and party politics . Oslo 1955, OCLC 17913578 .
Individual evidence
- ^ President of the Storting since 1814
- ^ Chroniknet, February 1, 1910
- ^ The Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1901
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Gunnar Knudsen |
Prime Minister of Norway 1910–1912 |
Jens Bratlie |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konow, Wollert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian politician, member of the Storting and Prime Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stend ( Fana ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1924 |
| Place of death | Fana |