Ingvar Lars Helle (12 April 1933 – 14 May 2003) was a Norwegian politician for the

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and later the Liberal People's Party. Helle was a member of

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city council from 1965 to 1971. In the period 1967–1971, he was also a member of Rogaland

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. He chaired the party chapter in Rogaland from 1962 to 1966, and the local chapter in Stavanger from 1967 to 1969. He was elected to the

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from

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in 1969. During this term, in December 1972, Helle joined the Liberal People's Party which split from the Liberal Party over disagreements of Norway's proposed entry to the

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. Like most of the Liberal People's Party representatives, he was not re-elected in 1973. However, he did serve another term in the Rogaland county council, from 1979 to 1983. From 1978 to 1980 he was the Liberal People's Party leader, and representative to the

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. In 1988, when the parties reunited, Helle returned to the Liberal Party to serve as a member of the national party board and deputy leader of the party chapter in Rogaland. Helle took his education in 1958, graduating from the

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as a

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. He also took pedagogy courses, and worked as a school teacher and principal. From 1981 to 1982, he worked in the oil drilling company Loffland Brothers North Sea Inc. From 1982 to 1997, he worked in

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, except for the years 1988 to 1991, when he worked in

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. In 1992, he took the

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degree at the

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. Born in

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, he was the brother of

Knut Helle Knut Helle (19 December 1930 – 27 June 2015) was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works. Early life, ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Helle, Ingvar Lars 1933 births 2003 deaths Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Liberal People's Party (Norway, 1972) politicians Politicians from Stavanger Norwegian School of Economics alumni University of Oslo alumni Equinor people Politicians from Larvik Members of the Storting 1969–1973