Georg Apenes (5 April 1940 – 2 October 2016) was a Norwegian politician and
jurist
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.
Career
Apenes was born in
Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad.
The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 15 ...
. After finishing secondary education, he briefly worked as a substitute school teacher in his hometown in 1960 before entering
Franklin and Marshall College
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as a part of the
Fulbright Program
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. He studied there for a year before being enrolled in the Norwegian officers' training school. He finished his studies in 1969, when he graduated with the
cand.jur.
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...
degree from the
University of Oslo
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. While studying in Oslo he had been chairman of the
Norwegian Students' Society
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The Norwegian Students' Society was established during 1813 in Oslo, Norway. Two years after the Royal Frederick University (today named the Univer ...
during the student-led
Protests of 1968
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In the United States, these protests marked a turning point for the ci ...
.
He then went to
Vest-Telemark
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to work as a deputy judge. While stationed there, he chaired the local Conservative Party chapter in
Kviteseid Kviteseid is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark in the Counties of Norway, county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Upper Telemark and Vest-Telemark. The administrative ...
from 1970 to 1971. He was given a lawyer's license in 1971, but instead became a journalist for his hometown newspaper ''
Fredriksstad Blad''. After one year he was promoted to subeditor. He stayed in this job until 1977.
[
In ]1977
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he was elected to the Parliament of Norway
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from Østfold
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constituency. He was later re-elected in 1981
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and 1985
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* January 1
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to serve two more terms. Unlike many national politicians, Apenes never held elected positions in local politics.[
He was not re-elected to a fourth parliamentary term in 1989; instead he was appointed the new director of the ]Norwegian Data Inspectorate
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority ( no, Datatilsynet) is an agency of the Norwegian Government responsible for managing the ''Personal Data Act 2000'', concerning privacy concerns. This Act replaced the ''Data Register Act 1978''.
The au ...
[ when ]Helge Seip
Helge Lunde Seip (5 March 1919 – 29 January 2004) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party and later the Liberal People's Party.
He was born in Surnadal. At a young age he became involved in the Young Liberals, the youth wing of the L ...
reached the age limit of 70 years and stepped down. As director of the Data Inspectorate, Apenes has made a mark in the political debate as a defender of privacy
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. He has opposed the European Union Directive 2006/24/EC. When commenting on Internet privacy
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, Apenes deplored the indifference with which people disseminate personally identifiable information
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The abbreviation PII is widely accepted in the United States, but the phrase it abbreviates ha ...
. He added that the dystopies described by Aldous Huxley
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Born into the prominent Huxley ...
"are probably not that far away". He stepped down in April 2010. Until his successor Bjørn Erik Thon
Bjørn Erik Thon (born 6 February 1964) is a Norwegian jurist and ombudsman.
Career
He graduated as cand.jur. in 1989. From 1999 to 2000, during the first cabinet Bondevik Thon worked as a political advisor in the Ministry of Justice and the ...
was named in late May, Ove Skåra was acting director.
Georg Apenes has authored several books, with topics spanning from monographies on political themes and analysis of political parties to festschrift
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s and amateur history. In addition, he has written columns in the newspapers ''Fredriksstad Blad'', ''Stavanger Aftenblad
''Stavanger Aftenblad'' () (lit: ''Stavanger Evening Paper'') or simply ''Aftenbladet'' is a daily newspaper based in Stavanger, Norway, and owned by Schibsted Media Group.
Norwegian owners held 42 percent of the shares in Schibsted at the end ...
'', ''Dagens Næringsliv
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'' and ''A-Magasinet ''A-magasinet'' is a supplement to the Norwegian newspaper ''Aftenposten'' that is published every Friday. The supplement is published in a format of , and it is therefore smaller than the daily newspaper, which is published in tabloid format. The ...
''.[
]
Personal life
He was the son of district stipendiary magistrate () Christian B. Apenes and housewife Inger-Johanne Apenes, née Framholdt Johansen. Inger-Johanne Apenes was murdered in 1978. The case was unsolved, until 2007 when someone confessed to the murder. By that time, however, the case was juridically obsolete
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. Georg Apenes is also a nephew of engineer and archaeologist Ola Apenes
Ola Rasmus Apenes (23 August 1898 – 6 April 1943) was a Norwegian engineer, archaeologist and soldier.
He was born in Fredriksstad as a son of shipbroker Georg Apenes (1869–1902) and his wife Kitty, née Mørch (1872–1958). His brother C ...
.
References
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1940 births
2016 deaths
Members of the Storting
Directors of government agencies of Norway
Østfold politicians
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian jurists
Norwegian journalists
University of Oslo alumni
People from Fredrikstad
20th-century Norwegian politicians