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Gustav Adolf Sjaastad (April 6, 1902 in Skogn, Nord-Trøndelag – May 7, 1964) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician Labor Partywho from 1933 was a lawyer at the Supreme Court (Norwegian Supreme Court) and between 1945 and 1954 legal adviser to the trade union federation The national organization in Norway (LO). In the Torp government he was Minister of Justice and Police from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Industry in the third Gerhardsen government from 1955 to 1959. He then became county governor of Nord-Trøndelag. He was also a member of the 1957-1961 Parliament and also served as governor between 1959 and his death in 1964 (County Governor) the province (County) Nord-Trøndelag.
Lawyer and business manager[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Gustav Adolf Sjaastad, son of farmer Olaf Herman Sjaastad (1869-1944) and Marta Fostad (1870-1933), after attending the Christian High School in Oslo 1922 studied law, which he 1926 as When. jur. finished. In 1926 he started working as a lawyer (lawyer) in Namsos. During this time he began his political engagement and was between 1927 and 1931 chairman of the Left team (“Left Team”) in Namsos and was also a member of the Presidium from 1927 to 1934 (presidency) of Namsos, the second highest political body in municipalities without parliamentary form of government, composed of a selection of at least five members of the municipal council (municipal council) consists of the mayor and the deputy mayor. He was admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court in 1933 (Norwegian Supreme Court)after which he worked as a lawyer in Oslo between 1935 and 1945.
In 1945, after the end of the Second World War, Sjaastad became legal adviser to the trade union federation The national organization in Norway (LO) and held this position until 1954. In addition, in the post-war period he held various positions in business and was, among other things, between 1946 and 1947 chairman of the committee for the reorganization of military companies and from 1946 and 1954 a board member of the aluminum producer A / S Norsk Hydro. Between 1947 and 1954 he also served as chairman of the board of the social security fund for seafarers in foreign trade (Trygdekassen for seafarers in foreign trade) and the publishing house belonging to the workers’ party Tiden Norsk Forlag. He was also chairman of the price and rationalization committee from 1947 to 1952 (Price and Rationalization Committee).
Minister, Parliament-Member and County Governor[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
On June 15, 1954, he succeeded Kai Birger Knudsen as Minister of Justice and Police in the Torp government (Minister of State, Ministry of Justice and Police) and held this ministry until January 22, 1955.[1][2] In the subsequent third Gerhardsen government, he took over the post of Industry Minister on January 22, 1955 (Minister, Ministry of Industry) and held this until April 9, 1959, after which Kjell Holler replaced him.[3] In the parliamentary elections on October 6, 1957, he was elected for the Labor Party as a member of the Storting, to which he belonged as a representative of Nord-Trøndelag between January 11, 1958 and September 30, 1961. During his tenure as Minister for Industry, his “piggyback representative” took over (Deputy representative) Hans Mikal Solsem (January 11, 1958 to April 9, 1959) temporarily assumed his mandate in the Storting. After retiring from the government, he took up his mandate in the Parliament and was only a member of the Committee on Shipping and Fisheries during his parliamentary term between April 14, 1959 and May 5, 1960 (Maritime and Fisheries Committee) and thereafter from May 5, 1960 to September 30, 1961 a member of the Judiciary Committee (Justice Committee).
At the same time, after leaving the government in 1959, Sjaastad took over as governor, succeeding Asbjørn Lindboe (County Governor) the province (County) Nord-Trøndelag and held it until his death on May 7, 1964, whereupon Ole Bae became his successor there.[4][5] In addition, he was between 1959 and 1964 chairman of the board of the local transport company The county cars and member of the Supervisory Board of the Handelsbank Commercial Bank. For his services he was appointed Commander of the Swedish Order of the North Star in 1960. Most recently, between 1960 and 1964, he was also a member of Nord-Trøndelag’s business committee and a member of the board of Mosjøen Veveriat the time one of the largest manufacturers of textile fabrics in Scandinavia, which among other things produced beaver nylon.
- ↑ Ministers in Norway: Ministry of Justice and the Police. Store norske leksikon (SNL); accessed 11 July 2022 (English).
- ↑ Norway: Justice Ministers. rulers.org; accessed on July 10, 2022 (English).
- ↑ Ministers of Norway: Ministry of Industry. Store norske leksikon (SNL); accessed 11 July 2022 (English).
- ↑ Nord-Trøndelag county: County governor. Store norske leksikon (SNL); accessed 11 July 2022 (English).
- ↑ Norway: County Governors. rulers.org; Retrieved July 11, 2022 (English).
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