Jan Bøhler (born 1 March 1952) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. Until 2020, he was a member of the Labour Party. He served as a member of Parliament representing Oslo, from 2005 to 2021.

Career

Stoltenberg’s first cabinet

From January to October 2001, during the

first cabinet Stoltenberg Stoltenberg's First Cabinet governed Norway between 17 March 2000 and 19 October 2001. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. It had the following composition. Cabinet members State Secretari ...

, Bøhler served as State Secretary in the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The enti ...

. He left his position after his party lost the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

Local politics

Locally, Bøhler was the party secretary of the local party chapter from 2002, and leader from 2004. Between 1991 and 1995 he was secretary to the Oslo city council chairman Rune Gerhardsen.

Parliament

He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years base ...

from

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

in 2005. He was re-elected three times since, but lost his seat in the 2021 election.

Bibliography

*''Østkantfolk'' (2020; non-fiction), co-authored by

Einar Haakaas Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mythology ...

*''Nær folk'' (2021; non-fiction), co-authored by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum

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1952 births Living people Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Politicians from Oslo 21st-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub