Nils Amund Røhne (20 April 1949 – 10 January 2022) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Life and career

Røhne was born in

Stange is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebye ...

on 20 April 1949. From 1994 to 1996, during the third cabinet Brundtland, Røhne was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Administration. From 1996 to 1997, during the

cabinet Jagland Jagland's Cabinet governed Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The ...

, he was appointed State Secretary in the

Ministry of Trade A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce. Notable examples are: List *Algeria: Ministry of Industry and Mi ...

. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

during the terms 1997–2001, 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. On the local level Røhne was a member of the executive committee of

municipal council from 1983 to 1987, later serving as mayor from 2007. He chaired the county party chapter from 1998 to 2001. Outside politics he has the cand.philol. degree in history, from the University of Oslo 1986. He worked as a research fellow at the

Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies The Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies ( no, Institutt for forsvarsstudier, IFS) is a defence research institute based in Oslo, Norway. It was established in 1980 and is part of the Norwegian Defence University College, itself part of the Norwe ...

from 1987 to 1993. From 1997 to 1998 he was a counsellor for the Research Council of Norway, and from 1998 he was director of foreign affairs in Norwegian People's Aid. He died in Stange on 10 January 2022, at the age of 72.

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* 1949 births 2022 deaths Deputy members of the Storting Centre Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Hedmark Norwegian state secretaries Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni University of Oslo alumni People from Stange {{Norway-politician-1940s-stub