Ragnar Udjus (born 10 October 1933 in

Landvik Landvik is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1971. The municipality's area is now located in the western and central part of the present-day municipality of ...

, Norway) is a Norwegian media personality and politician for the Centre Party. From 1972 to 1973, during

Korvald's Cabinet Korvald's Cabinet governed Norway between 18 October 1972 and 16 October 1973. The centre cabinet was led by Lars Korvald as Prime Minister and consisted of the Christian Democratic Party, the Centre Party and the Liberal Party The Liberal Par ...

, Udjus was appointed political secretary (

political advisor Political consulting is a form of consulting that consists primarily of advising and assisting political campaigns. Although the most important role of political consultants is arguably the development and production of mass media (largely televisi ...

) in the Ministry of the Environment. He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( ; ) 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 based on party-list proportional represe ...

from

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total popul ...

in 1973, and was re-elected on one occasion. He was a member of the national party board from 1971 to 1974. Outside politics he spent most of his career in the local radio station Radio Sør. He also worked as chief editor in ''

Agder Tidend ''Agder Tidend'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Kristiansand and mainly distributed in the district of Agder, from 1919 to 1985. History and profile ''Agder Tidend'' was started on 1 September 1919. The first editor was Ivar Høvik. Amon ...

'' from 1965 to 1968 and in the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is a Norwegian state-run, government-influenced radio and television public broadcasting company. The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen nat ...

. His grandson

Kenneth Udjus Kenneth Udjus (born 2 July 1983) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Asker. Youth career Udjus played as a defender as a junior in IK Start, until Thomas Gill discovered his goalkeeping abilities by chance whe ...

is a professional footballer.

References

1933 births Living people Vest-Agder politicians Centre Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian Lutherans Norwegian newspaper editors Members of the Storting 1977–1981 Members of the Storting 1973–1977 {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub