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Bjerke (surname)
Bjerke is a Norwegian surname, also found throughout Scandinavia. Notable people with the surname include: *André Bjerke (1918–1985), Norwegian writer and poet *Björn Bjerke, Swedish economist * Desiree Bjerke, Norwegian skeleton racer *Ejlert Bjerke (1887–1963), Norwegian writer *Espen Harald Bjerke, Norwegian cross-country skier * Ferdinand Bjerke, Norwegian railway engineer. * Harald Bjerke (1860–1926), Norwegian businessperson *Ingvald Bjerke (1907–1990), Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics * Juul Bjerke (1928–2014), Norwegian economist * Kristin Blystad-Bjerke, Norwegian football player *Olaf Bjerke (1893–1957), Norwegian trade unionist *Paul Bjerke, Norwegian media scientist * Per Arne Bjerke (1952-2015), Norwegian journalist and politician * Regine Bjerke, Norwegian judge *Rune Bjerke, Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party *Siri Bjerke, Norwegian Government minister of in the Labour Party *Svein Bjerke, Norwegian pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birch Tree
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Red List of Threatened Species. They are a typically rather short-lived pioneer species widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in northern areas of temperate climates and in boreal climates. Description Birch species are generally small to medium-sized trees or shrubs, mostly of northern temperate and boreal climates. The simple leaves are alternate, singly or doubly serrate, feather-veined, petiolate and stipulate. They often appear in pairs, but these pairs are really borne on spur-like, two-leaved, lateral branchlets. The fruit is a small samara, although the wings may be obscure in some species. They differ from the alders (''Alnus'', another genus in the family) in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Bjerke
Harald Borgen Bjerke (4 March 1860 – 1 April 1926) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Kristiania. From 1895 to 1912 he was the managing director of Mandalsgatens Høvleri. From 1910 to 1912 he also chaired the Norwegian Employers' Confederation. From 1918 to 1926 he was the Director-General of Norsk Hydro. He was also a supervisory council member of Elektrisk Bureau Elektrisk Bureau or EB was a Norwegian manufacturer of telecommunication equipment. It was founded in 1882 and lasted until 1993 when it became part of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). The company was located at Billingstad in Asker. History In 1882 .... References 1860 births 1926 deaths Businesspeople from Oslo Norsk Hydro people {{Norway-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svein Bjerke
Svein Bjerke (born 15 November 1938 in Oslo), is a religious historian and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, where he was attached to the Department for the History of Religion for thirty years, part of the time as its head. He belonged to the first Norwegian group of anthropology students, but has since worked with archeological excavations (for example as member of The Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia in 1965-66), philological text analyses (especially in his thesis on the Egyptian mouth opening ritual) and traditional anthropological field work. His most well-known work is the doctoral dissertation ''Religion and Misfortune'' (UiO 1975; Universitetsforlaget 1981; ) based on fieldwork in North-Western Tanzania. Bjerke has represented Norwegian Comparative religion in the International Association for the History of Religion (IAHR) and for a number of years been a member of the editorial board of the journal ''Humanist''. Bjerke is married to professor No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siri Bjerke
Siri Bjerke (19 June 1958 – 11 February 2012) was a Norwegian politician ( Labour Party). She was substitute member of the Norwegian legislature between 1997 and 2005, state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1993 and 1997 and Minister of the Environment between 2000 and 2001 during Stoltenberg's first cabinet. After leaving politics she worked as a director for the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (2002–2005) and for Innovation Norway (2005–). She studied psychology at the University of Oslo. References *Obituaryin Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ... 1958 births 2012 deaths Ministers of Climate and the Environment of Norway Deputy members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Innovation Norway peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rune Bjerke
Rune Bjerke (born 17 June 1960) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party. Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. From 1992 to 1995 he was city commissioner (''byråd'') of finance in the city cabinet of Oslo. He has previously been advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, director in Scancem International and chief executive officer in Hafslund. From 2007 to 2019 he was chief executive officer of DNB. He is the chairman of the board of Doorstep, and of both the Norwegian Financial Services Association and Finance Norway. Bjerke is married to the Labour party politician Libe Rieber-Mohn Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (born 25 August 1965) is a Norwegian civil servant and former politician for the Labour Party. She was appointed as Director-General of the Directorate of Integration and Diversity b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regine Ramm Bjerke
Regine Ramm Bjerke (born 18 May 1949) is a Norwegian judge. Personal life She resides in Oslo. Career In 2000, she became a presiding judge in Borgarting Court of Appeal. She was a member of the Lund Commission from 1994 to 1996, together with Ketil Lund, Berge Furre, Torkel Hovland and Ingse Stabel. She is also a board member of Lovdata Lovdata is a Norwegian foundation which publishes judicial information of Norway. It publishes the periodical '' Norsk lovtidend'', and ''Lov&Data'' and ''EuroRett'', and hosts a website with free, public access to all Norwegian laws and other .... References 1949 births Living people Norwegian judges {{Norway-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Arne Bjerke
Per Arne Bjerke (24 March 1952 – 17 June 2015) was a Norwegian journalist, radio presenter and politician for the Labour Party. He was an editor in ''Romerikes Blad'', news editor in '' Dagsavisen'' and information director in the Ministry of Finance, but was best known for his time in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ... where, from 2008 to his death, he presented the radio program '' Politisk kvarter''. From 1990 to 1992 he served in Brundtland's Third Cabinet as State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister. References 1952 births 2015 deaths Norwegian journalists Norwegian civil servants Norwegian radio personalities NRK people Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians {{Norwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bjerke
Paul Bjerke (born 2 October 1952) is a Norwegian media scientist. He currently works as a research fellow at the Volda University College and the research institute De Facto, having graduated from the University of Oslo with the mag.art degree in 1982. Bjerke was the editor-in-chief of Klassekampen ''Klassekampen'' ( en, The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 34,000 (2021), and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). ... from 1995 to 1997, and still has a column there. References 1952 births Living people Norwegian newspaper editors University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of Volda University College Klassekampen editors {{editor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Bjerke
Olaf Bjerke (6 January 1893 – 21 September 1957) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Communist Party of Norway, Communist Party. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested on 10 September 1941 after the milk strike. He was imprisoned at Møllergata 19, then in Grini concentration camp, then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of World War II. The communist inmates formed a caucus in the camp, and Bjerke was among the leading members along with Kristian Mugaas, Johan Strand Johansen, Olaf Skramstad, Halvor Sørum and Erling Heiestad. A railway worker, Bjerke was involved in the trade union Norwegian Union of Railway Workers. As former chairman Ludvik Buland died in a concentration camp in 1945, Bjerke came close to being elected chairman at the national convention later that year, but lost the vote to the Social Democrat John Marius Trana, Marius Trana. The electoral committee had been unified in its support of Bjerke, but repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Blystad-Bjerke
Kristin Blystad-Bjerke (born 7 July 1980) is a Norwegian footballer who played as a striker for Kolbotn of the Toppserien and Norway women's national football team. Club career Blystad-Bjerke started her career playing for Kolbotn in 1997. Later on, she moved to Denmark to play for Idrætsklubben Aalborg Freja for a couple of years, then to return eventually to Kolbotn in 2002. After over 200 games and around 60 goals, she was released in 2008, the same year when she was the club's top scorer with 13 goals. International career Blystad-Bjerke played for the Norway women's team, in which she got a silver medal after finishing second in the UEFA Women's Euro 2005, coming at 87th minute in the final against Germany. Personal life In January 2009, Blystad-Bjerke married national team-mate Trine Rønning, shortly after same-sex marriage in Norway Same-sex marriage in Norway has been legal since 1 January 2009 when a gender-neutral marriage law came into force after being pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juul Bjerke
Juul Bjerke (14 April 192828 February 2014) was a Norwegian economist. He was born in Hof, Vestfold. He took the cand.oecon degree and was hired in Statistics Norway in 1950. He served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1971 to 1972, in Bratteli's First Cabinet. He was later a head of department in Statistics Norway from 1973 to 1983, then led the Economy Department at the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1983 to 1993. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Norway from 1978 to 1993. He is the father of Siri and Rune Bjerke, and father-in-law of Libe Rieber-Mohn. He died in February 2014 in Motril Motril () is a town and municipality on the Mediterranean coast in the Granada, Spain. It is the second largest town in the province, with a population of 60,368 as of 2016. The town is located near the Guadalfeo River and is from Granada. Hi ..., Spain. References 1928 births 2014 deaths Norwegian civil servants Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingvald Bjerke
Ingvald Johan Bjerke (March 13, 1907 – January 1, 1990) was a Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born in Ullensaker and died in Hundorp, but represented the club Oslo AK Oslo Atletklub is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo. It now only has a section for weightlifting. The club was founded as ''Kristiania Atletklub'' on 4 October 1916. Their best athlete was Otto von Porat who became an Olympic gold medalist in amat .... In 1928 he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming silver medalist John Daley. References 1907 births 1990 deaths Bantamweight boxers Olympic boxers for Norway Boxers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Norwegian male boxers 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
