Torolv Kandahl (17 August 1899 – 5 March 1982) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and Member of Parliament with the Conservative Party.

Biography

He was born at Austad (now

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) in

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, Norway. He was the son of Tor Mathias Kandahl (1876-1955) and Sanna Mathilde Torjesen (1877-1969). His father was a school teacher and manager of the local telephone exchange. In 1918, Kandahl received his first job as a journalist in ''

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''. In 1919, he went to ''

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'', where he was a political journalist until 1922. He obtained his degree in law degree in 1926. In 1928, he was appointed an editor of ''

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''. Kandahl was chairman of the

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from 1938. During the

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, he was deprived of his positions by the occupational power. From 1942-45, he was the head of the Norwegian Government's information office in

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. After the liberation of Norway, he was chief editor at ''

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'' from 1945-61. Kandahl was chairman of the

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1950-56 and from 1961-63 he was a board member of the

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. From 1961-70, he was at ''Aftenposten''. Kandahl was a member of Aker municipality council from 1934 to 1939, and then served as deputy mayor in the period 1939–1940. He was elected to the

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from

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in 1950, but was not re-elected in 1954. He later served in the position of deputy representative during the term 1958–1961. Kandahl was nominated as a knight of the 1st grade of

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in 1960, and was awarded the Command Cross in 1975. He was the holder of an honorary doctorate (1966) from Luther College in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kandahl, Torolv 1899 births 1982 deaths People from Lyngdal Politicians from Aker Norwegian newspaper journalists Norwegian newspaper editors Aftenposten editors Buskerud politicians Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Chairs of the Association of Norwegian Editors Members of the Storting 1950–1953