Christian Wegner Haaland (6 February 1892 – 20 October 1952) was a Norwegian ship-owner and politician for the Conservative Party.

Biography

Haaland was born at

Haugesund Haugesund () is a municipalities of Norway, municipality and List of towns and cities in Norway, town on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. As of December 2023, the municipality of Haugesund has a population of 37,855. The vast majority of ...

Rogaland Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. As of 1 January 2024, it had a population of 49 ...

, Norway. He was the son of Thomas Wegner Christiansen Haaland (1859–1913) and Anna Christine Knudsen (1866–1923). After attending business school in Kristiania, he trained at shipping offices in

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. Together with his father-in-law Knut Knutsen, Haaland started a shipping company in 1914. By 1919 he established his own office. From 1937 to 1940 he was the president of the

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. He served as a deputy representative to the

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from the

Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties The Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties () was an electoral district for Stortinget, parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the Kjøpstad, market towns () of Flekkefjord (town), Flekkefjord, Kristiansand (town), Kristiansand a ...

during the term 1945–1949. He was the mayor of

in 1925, 1928–1931 and 1945. He was married 1915 to Ida Karoline Knutsen (1894–1948), daughter of shipowner Knut Knutsen (1871–1946) and Elisabeth Tobine Bakke (1867–1957). After Haaland's death in 1952, the company continued under the leadership of his son Thomas Chr. Haaland (1917–75).

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*Eilertsen, Grete (2016) ''Rederne og byen. En undersøkelse av rederstandens engasjement i Haugesund ca. 1870-1940'' (University of Bergen) *Hammerborg, Morten (2003) ''Skipsfartsbyen: Haugesunds skipsfartshistorie 1850–2000'' (Bergen : Eide) 1892 births 1952 deaths Deputy members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Rogaland People from Haugesund Norwegian businesspeople in shipping Norwegian expatriates in the United States {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub