Andreas Berg (4 October 1861 – 29 June 1944) was a Norwegian lawyer, banker and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Trondhjem as a son of bank treasurer Lauritz Berg and

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. In 1881 he married cityfellow Petra Larsen. He took the examen artium at Trondhjem Cathedral School in 1879 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

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degree in 1883. After a period as a deputy judge in Trondhjem City Court, he worked as an attorney in the city from 1885. In 1901 he became chief executive officer of the bank Den nordenfjeldske Kreditbank.''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912
/ref> He retired after 28 years in the bank. He was also a board member of Centralbanken for Norge and several other ventures. Berg served as Mayor of Trondheim from 1899 to 1901 and 1908 to 1910. He was elected to the

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from the constituency ''Trondhjem og Levanger'' in

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, and served through one term as a member of the Standing Committee on Constitutional Affairs. In 1905 he was a member of the Special Committee that oversaw the development in the consular case, which caused the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. He received the 7th June Medal and the Coronation Medal, and was decorated as a Commander, Second Class of the

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. He died in June 1944.

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1861 births 1944 deaths University of Oslo alumni 19th-century Norwegian lawyers Norwegian bankers Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Mayors of Trondheim People educated at the Trondheim Cathedral School {{Norway-politician-1870s-stub