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1896 In Norway
Events in the year 1896 in Norway. Incumbents *Monarch: Oscar II *Prime Minister: Francis Hagerup Events * 11 July – Noregs Ungdomslag (lit. "Norway's youth society") was founded. Popular culture Sports *3 March – FC Lyn Oslo football club is founded. Music Theathre Literature Births January to March *4 January ** Jørgen Løvset, gynecologist and academic (died 1981) ** Johanne Reutz Gjermoe, economist and politician (died 1989). *2 February – Einar Ræder, long jumper (died 1976) *5 February – Paul Tjøstolsen Sunde, politician (died 1958) *9 February – Arthur Rydstrøm, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (died 1986) *10 February – Alf Aanning, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (died 1948) *17 February – Arthur Qvist, horse rider and Olympic silver medallist (died 1973) *22 February – Ingvald Johannes Jaklin, politician (died 1966) April to June *9 April – Cato Andreas Sverdrup, politician (died 1948) *20 April – Asbjørn Bodahl, gymnast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monarchy Of Norway
The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace its line back to the reign of Harald Fairhair and the previous petty kingdoms which were united to form Norway; it has been in unions with both Sweden and Denmark for long periods. The present monarch is King Harald V, who has reigned since 17 January 1991, succeeding his father, Olav V. The heir apparent is his only son, Crown Prince Haakon. The crown prince undertakes various public ceremonial functions, as does the king's wife, Queen Sonja. The crown prince also acts as regent in the king's absence. There are several other members of the royal family, including the king's daughter, grandchildren and sister. Since the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden and the subsequent election of a Danish prince as King Haakon VII in 1905, the reigning royal house of Norway has been a branch of the Schleswig- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbjørn Bodahl
Asbjørn Bodahl (20 April 1896 – 21 December 1962) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... He was part of the Norwegian team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event. References 1896 births 1962 deaths Norwegian male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Norway Olympic silver medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian people {{norway-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Olsen
Claudia Olsen (22 September 1896 – 9 November 1980) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party of Norway, Conservative Party. She was born in Tønsberg. She was elected to the Stortinget, Norwegian Parliament from the ''Market towns of Vestfold'' in 1945, and was re-elected on three occasions. Olsen was a member of the executive committee of Tønsberg city council in the period 1928–1931, and was a regular city council member between 1933 and 1945. References * Norwegian women's rights activists 1896 births 1980 deaths Members of the Storting Women members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Tønsberg 20th-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian women politicians {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Gundersen
Einar "Jeja" Gundersen (20 September 1896 – 29 October 1962) was a Norwegian footballer who played play as a centre-forward for Odd. He is regarded as one of Norwegian football's first star players. He played 33 internationals for Norway, and his 26 international goals puts him second on the national team's all-time scoring list. His nickname Jeja means literally "Me Then", as that was what he wondered as a kid when he was not picked for the team. At club level, Gundersen scored more than 200 goals. He won the Norwegian Cup five times. He was also a member of the Norwegian team that played in the 1920 Olympics, and scored twice in the 3–1 win against England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...'s amateur side. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isak Larsson Flatabø
Isak Larsson Flatabø (11 September 1896 – 22 January 1969) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party. He was born in Kvam, Vikør. He was elected to the Storting, Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1945, and was re-elected on four occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative in the periods 1934–1936 and 1937–1945. On the local level, Flatabø was a member of Kvam, Hordaland, Kvam municipality council from 1927 to 1940. He chaired the local party chapter from 1933 to 1934, and the county chapter from 1953 to 1958. Outside politics he worked as a manual laborer and as a farmer. He was active in the International Organisation of Good Templars. References * 1896 births 1969 deaths Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Hordaland politicians Norwegian people of Swedish descent 20th-century Norwegian politicians International Organisation of Good Templars people {{Norway-politician-189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilif Løvrak Holmesland
Eilif Løvrak Holmesland (25 August 1896 – 21 March 1959) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in Kristiania as the son of Peter Karl Holmesland and grandson of Simon Pedersen Holmesland, both former parliament members. He enrolled as a student in 1914, graduated as cand.jur. in 1919 and started working as an attorney in Gjerpen, where his father was district stipendiary magistrate (). In 1921 he moved to Arendal to work as a lawyer. He became a Supreme Court lawyer in 1928. From 1931 he had been a member of Arendal city council. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1934–1936, representing the Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties The Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties ( no, Kjøpstedene i Telemark og Aust-Agder fylker) was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns ( no, kjøpsteder) of Brevik, Kragerø, Notodden ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Reiss-Andersen
Gunnar Reiss-Andersen (21 August 1896 – 29 July 1964) was a Norway, Norwegian Lyric poetry, lyric poet and writer. Biography He was born at Larvik in Vestfold, Norway. Reiss-Andersen went to sea at 17 years of age, sailing the Baltic Sea, Baltic and North Seas for a year in the brig “Baron von Holberg", which was commanded by his uncle, Knut Knutsen. After completing the Examen artium with emphasis in Latin in 1916 he went into the military, becoming a non-commissioned officer. There he followed his inclination towards the arts, painting portraits. He subsequently studied painting in Copenhagen (1917–1919) and Paris (1919–1921). For several years he worked as an artist, illustrator, and the art reviewer for the ''Arbeiderbladet'' newspaper in Oslo. In 1921 he debuted as a lyric poet with his poetry collection titled ''Indvielsens aar''. He participated in the Norwegian resistance movement beginning in 1940 and during the early years of the Second World War, writing cland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olav Svalastog
Olav Svalastog (27 July 1896 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1945, but was not re-elected in 1949. Svalastog was a member of Solum municipal council from 1955 to 1957. He was born in Nissedal, Svalastog worked as a teacher in Vrådal, Treungen, Tveit, Solum and Fjære Fjære is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1846 until 1971. It was located to the north of the town of Grimstad. The name is still used to refer to that area, which is now a part of Gr .... References * 1896 births 1979 deaths Members of the Storting Christian Democratic Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Telemark People from Nissedal Norwegian resistance members 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Andresen
Ivar Frithiof Andresen (27 July 1896 – 6 November 1940) was a Norwegian opera singer who pursued a successful international career in Europe and the United States. Andresen was the first Norwegian to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (preceding his famous compatriot, the great Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, by five years). A bass, he appeared in operas composed by Wagner, Mozart and Verdi. Biography Andresen was born in Kristiania. After making his debut in Stockholm in 1919, he worked at ' (now ', or Royal Swedish Opera), from 1921 to 1926. He then performed at the Dresden Semperoper (in 1926–1931) and the Städtische Oper Berlin (1931–1935), and also appeared as a guest artist at the New York Met (1930–1932) and the Bayreuth Festival (1927–1936). In England, he sang at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1928–1931 and at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1935. Andresen's singing earned considerable critical acclaim during his appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Solumsmoen
Olaf Solumsmoen (19 July 1896 – 22 September 1972) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Sigdal, and decided to be a stenographer. He was hired in the Labour Party newspaper ''Fremtiden'' in Drammen, where he also was involved in local politics. He eventually left stenography to become a journalist. He worked as chief editor for the Labour Party press office Arbeidernes Pressekontor from 1931 to 1946. During the Nazi occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945, an underground newspaper was published titled '' Bulletinen''. The first editors were Olaf Solumsmoen and Olav Larssen . Both men were arrested and imprisoned. Solumsmoen was imprisoned at Grini concentration camp (Norwegian: ''Grini fangeleir'') from 27 January 1942 to the end of the war, 8 May 1945. From 1946 Solumsmoen worked as "night editor" of ''Arbeiderbladet'', the primary Labour Party newspaper. In 1948 he was hired as press secretary (title changed to state secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Secretary-General
The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-general and of the secretariat is laid out by Chapter XV (Articles 97 to 101) of the United Nations Charter. However, the office's qualifications, selection process and tenure are open to interpretation; they have been established by custom. Selection and term of office The secretary-general is appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. As the recommendation must come from the Security Council, any of the five permanent members of the council can veto a nomination. Most secretaries-general are compromise candidates from middle powers and have little prior fame. Unofficial qualifications for the job have been set by precedent in previous selections. The appointee may not be a citizen of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trygve Lie
Trygve Halvdan Lie ( , ; 16 July 1896 – 30 December 1968) was a Norwegians, Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian foreign minister during the critical years of the Nygaardsvold's Cabinet, Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was the Secretary-General of the United Nations#Secretaries-General, first Secretary-General of the United Nations. Early life Lie was born in Kristiania (now Oslo) on 16 July 1896. His father, carpenter Martin Lie, left the family to emigrate to the United States in 1902, and was never heard from again. Trygve grew up under poor conditions together with his mother Hulda and a sister who was six at the time. His mother ran a boarding house and café in Grorud in Oslo. Lie joined the Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party in 1911 and was named as the party's national secretary soon after receiving his cand.jur., law degree from the University of Oslo in 1919. Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
