Bjarne Mørk Eidem (4 October 1936 – 2 October 2022) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was chairman of the Norwegian Aquaculture Center in

Brønnøy Brønnøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre and commercial centre of the municipality is the town of Brønnøysund. A secondary centre is the village of Hommelstø. Ot ...

Biography

Bjarne Mørk Eidem was a member of the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

from 1969 to 1993, representing Nordland. He was made Minister of Fisheries in the second cabinet of

Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Brundtland (; born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician ( Arbeiderpartiet), who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96) and as the director-general of the World Health Organizat ...

from 1986 to 1989, as well as minister of Nordic cooperation. Mørk Eidem resigned on 10 October, six days before the cabinet. From 1990 to 2005, he was

Auditor General of Norway The Office of the Auditor General of Norway ( no, Riksrevisjonen) is the state auditor of the Government of Norway and directly subordinate of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for auditing, monitoring and advising all state economic act ...

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1936 births 2022 deaths People from Vega, Norway Government ministers of Norway Labour Party (Norway) politicians Auditors general of Norway Members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub