Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (21 July 1900 – 26 August 1985) was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Centre Party. He chaired the

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from 1951 to 1955 and was a member of

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from 1957 to 1965.

Personal life

He was born in Furnes as a son of military officer and politician Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1865–1925) and Hanna Krag (1870–1963). He was a paternal grandson of Ole Rømer Sandberg and maternal grandson of Hans Hagerup Krag, great-grandson of priest Christian Juell Sandberg, great-grandnephew of Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1811–1883), nephew of Colonel Christian Juell Sandberg and first cousin of Major Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1888–1975). His sister Anna was the mother of

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. Another sister Johanne married

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. In 1926 he married Oddlaug Moen, an adoptive daughter of horticulturalist

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Career

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his secondary education in

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in 1919 and graduated from the

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in 1925. He managed the farm Hol in Furnes from 1925, and took over the farm in 1935. He later took over the farm Kåtorp as well. In Furnes he chaired the local Agrarian Association branch from 1927 to 1929, the local branch of the

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from 1936 to 1945 (he was also a deputy member of the national board 1936–1939) and the local Agrarian Party branch from 1937 to 1940. He was a member of Furnes municipal council from 1934 to 1951, the last six years in the executive committee, and a member of the municipal land board from 1936 to 1952 and 1956 to 1960. In the 1940s he was a board member of Potetmelfabrikantenes Salgskontor (1940–1945), Gartnerhallen (1941–1945), Felleskjøpet (1946–1949) and NLVF (1949–1955). During the

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Sandberg was a member of Hjemmefrontens Ledelse, and he was a candidate for

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after the war. He was drafted into and the board of . In the 1950s he became chair of Hedmark Agrarian Association (1951–1953) and the

(1951–1955). He also served one last term as councilman in Furnes, from 1955 to 1959. He was elected to the

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from

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, and was re-elected in

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. After declining re-nomination and leaving Parliament, he chaired a committee from 1966 to 1967 founded by the

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to evaluate the tax and duty system of Norway. Sandberg was also a board member of the Norwegian Directorate of Labour from 1955, and deputy chair until 1964, and Forsikringsselskapet Odin from 1959 to 1964. He chaired the supervisory council of

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from 1956 to 1958. In 1971 he was proclaimed an honorary member of the Norwegian Agrarian Association. He died in August 1985 in Hamar.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandberg, Ole Romer Aagaard 1900 births 1985 deaths People from Ringsaker Norwegian farmers Hedmark politicians Members of the Storting Centre Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian resistance members 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Furnes, Norway