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Annfinn Lund
Annfinn Lund (5 April 1926 – 2001) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Leka Municipality, and is a cand.jur. by education. He was employed at the Development Fund for Northern Norway, the predecessor of the Regional Development Fund, the Industrial and Regional Development Fund and Innovation Norway Innovation Norway is a state-owned company and a national development bank. The company's programs and services are intended to stimulate entrepreneurship in Norway. Its head office is in Oslo, and an office in each of the Norwegian counties. It a ..., in 1955. He was promoted to deputy director in 1970, but in 1973 he was appointed as state secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Labour as a part of the second cabinet Bratteli. From 1978 to 1980 he was a state secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and from 1980 to 1981 he was the County Governor of Hedmark. From 1981 to 1993 he was the deputy under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party (; , A or Ap; ), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party (, DNA), is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Norway, political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum, and is led by Jonas Gahr Støre. It was the senior party in a Minority government, minority governing coalition with the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party from 2021 until the Centre Party's exit from government in 2025, with Støre serving as the current Prime Minister of Norway. The Labour Party is officially committed to social-democratic ideals. Its slogan since the 1930s has been "everyone shall be included" () and the party traditionally seeks a strong welfare state, funded through taxes and Duty (economics), duties. Since the 1980s, the party has included more of the principles of a social market economy in its policy, allowing for privatisation of state-owned assets and services and reducing income tax Progressive tax, progress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Governors Of Norway
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) ''Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or, in his stead, a viscount (''vicomte'').C. W. Onions (Ed.) ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology''. Oxford University Press, 1966. Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including , , , , , , , and Slavic languages, Slavic ''Župa, zhupa''; terms equivalent to 'commune' or 'community' are now often instead used. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. Although there were at first no counts, ''vicomtes'' or counties in Anglo-Norman England, the earlier Anglo-Saxons did have earls, sheriffs and shires. The shires were the districts that became the historic counties of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (Norway) Politicians
Labour Party or Labor Party is a name used by many political parties. Africa Burkina Faso * Party of Labour of Burkina, active 1990–1996 * Voltaic Labour Party, active South Africa * Labour Party (South Africa) * Labour Party (South Africa, 1969) * Labour Party (South Africa, 2024) * Natal Labour Party * New Labour Party (South Africa) * Transvaal Independent Labour Party Elsewhere in Africa *MPLA, formerly known as the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party * Independent Labor Party, Burundi * Congolese Party of Labour, Republic of the Congo * Labor Party of Liberia * Labour Party (Mauritius), one of the two major parties in Mauritius * Labour Party (Morocco) * South West African Labour Party, Namibia, active circa 1970s * Labour Party (Nigeria) *Labour Party of Sine Saloum, Senegal, active circa 1960 * Tanzania Labour Party * Zimbabwe Labour Party Asia Armenia * All Armenian Labour Party *United Labour Party (Armenia) India *Labour Party (Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Leka, Norway
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Births
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the last country to officially adopt the Gregorian Calendar, which ended the 344-year calendrical switch around the world that took place in October, 1582 by virtue of the Papal Bull made by Pope Gregory XIII. Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam. * January 16 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting. * January 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odvar Nordli
Odvar Nordli (; 3 November 1926 – 9 January 2018) was a Norway, Norwegian politician from the Det norske Arbeiderparti, Labour Party. He was the prime minister of Norway from 1976 to 1981 during the Cold War. Before serving as prime minister, Nordli served as the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development (Norway), minister of local government from 1971 to 1972. After serving as prime minister, Nordli served as the Storting, vice president of the Storting from 1981 until 1985, and was also a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1985 until 1996. Early life The son of a railroad worker, Eugen Nordli (1904–1992) and housewife Marie (1902–1984), (Maiden and married names, née Jørgensen), Nordli grew up in Tangen in Stange, Hedmark. After World War II he served in the Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany, part of the Allied forces occupying post-war Germany. By education he became a certified accountant before entering politics, and worked in thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erling Anger
Erling Anger (17 April 1909 – 22 April 1999) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Kristiansund, and is a cand.jur. by education. He was hired as chief administrative officer of finances in Trondheim in 1950, and as County Governor of Møre og Romsdal in 1958. In 1965 he served as acting permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Local Government and Labour, before serving as County Governor of Hedmark from 1966 to 1979. From 1980 to 1984 he chaired the Labour Court of Norway. He was buried in Hamar Hamar is a List of cities in Norway, town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hedmarken. .... References 1909 births 1999 deaths People from Kristiansund Norwegian jurists County governors of Norway Directors of government agencies of Norway {{Norway-politician-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month. Paper editions (1978–2007) The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Ministry Of Transport And Communications
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Transport, also referred as Ministry of Transport and Communications (, SD) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1946, and is responsible for transportation in Norway. The ministry was responsible for communication infrastructure until may 2019, when the responsibility for the Norwegian Communications Authority was transferred to Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Since October 2021, the ministry has been headed by Jon-Ivar Nygård of the Labour Party. The department must report to the parliament (Stortinget). Organization Political staff As of June 2023, the political staff of the ministry is as follows * State Secretary Jon-Ivar Nygård ( Labour Party) * State Secretary Tom Kalsås (Labour Party) * State Secretary Bent-Joacim Bentzen ( Centre Party) * State Secretary Abel Cecilie Knibe Kroglund (Labour Party) * Political Adviser Jakob Vorren (Labour Party) Department The ministry has 135 employees and is divid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka Municipality
Leka is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Leknes, Trøndelag, Leknes on the Leka (island), island of Leka. Other villages in Leka include Sør-Gutvika and Madsøygrenda. The municipality is the 326th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Leka is the 349th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 604. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 8.6% over the previous 10-year period. The island municipality includes all of the island of Leka (island), Leka and part of the island of Austra, Norway, Austra as well as hundreds of smaller surrounding islands and skerries. Primarily a fishing and farming community, Leka is the northernmost municipality in Trøndelag county. The island of Leka has been inhabited for at least 10,000 y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
