Kjeld F. K. Stub (16 February 1868 – 6 January 1955) was a
Norwegian
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priest and politician.
Kjeld Fredrik Karl Stub was born at
Sigdal
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The municipality of Sigdal was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area of Krødsherad was sepa ...
in
Buskerud
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, Norway. He took the
cand.theol.
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degree in 1892. He worked as a secretary for the
YMCA
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in
Kristiania
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and
curate
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for the
dean
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in the
Diocese of Kristiania Gustav Jensen
Gustav Margerth Jensen (July 13, 1845 – November 2, 1922) was a Norwegians, Norwegian priest, hymnologist, hymnwriter, seminary instructor, and liturgist. He is best known for his liturgy revision and hymnal publication.
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(1845–1922). In 1912, he was hired as the priest at Garnisonskirken in Oslo (1899-1901) and of the garrison
Akershus Fortress
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, where he remained until his retirement
in 1938. He was also a chairman of the
Norwegian Sunday School Association, and board member of the Norwegian Lutheran Inner Mission Society (''Det norske lutherske Indremisjonsselskap''), the children's home
Toftes gave
Toftes Gave was a Norwegian orphanage for enforced placement of maladjusted children, or children in deficit of parental care. It was established in 1844 in ''Munkedamsveien'' in Christiania. The institution was relocated to Ullensaker in 1858, a ...
and the society against cruelty to animals,
Foreningen til Dyrenes Beskyttelse.
Stub represented the
Conservative Party
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in the city council. In 1933 he joined the new party
Nasjonal Samling
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and was a failed candidate in the
1933 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 16 October 1933.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 69 of the 150 seats in the Storting.
R ...
,
where he occupied the last ballot spot. In the
1936 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 19 October 1936, Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 the last before World War II and the German invasion of Norway. The result was a victory for the ...
he tried again, this time as the fourth candidate on the ballot behind
Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (, ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germ ...
, H. Knutsen and
Øyvor Hansson
Øyvor Hansson, née Styren (3 March 1893 – 1975) was a Norwegian politician for Nasjonal Samling.
She co-founded the Nasjonal Samling's Women's Organisation. She started out as secretary under Marie Irgens before serving as leader from 1935 t ...
.
He died in 1955 and was buried at
VÃ¥r Frelsers gravlund
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.
References
1898 births
1955 deaths
People from Sigdal
Norwegian priest-politicians
Politicians from Oslo
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Members of Nasjonal Samling
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
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