Oscar Christian Gundersen (17 March 1908 – 21 February 1991) was a
Norwegian
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politician for the
Labour Party.
During his student days he was a member of
Mot Dag
Mot Dag (, 'Towards Day') was a Norwegian political group. The group was active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party. After World War II, many of its former members were leaders in Norwegian politics and ...
. Gundersen graduated with the
cand.jur. degree in 1931. During
Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet
Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet governed Norway between 5 November 1945 and 19 November 1951. The Labour Party (Ap) cabinet was led by Einar Gerhardsen.
In May 1948, Gerhardsen told Jens Chr Hauge, that he was considering resigning.Njølstad p.352 ...
he was appointed
Minister of Justice and the Police
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Until 1 January 2012 the post w ...
, a post he a year into the new
Torp's Cabinet
Torp's Cabinet governed Norway between 19 November 1951 and 22 January 1955. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Oscar Torp
Oscar Fredrik Torp (, 8 June 1893 – 1 May 1958) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. He was party ...
. He left in 1952 and became a
Supreme Court Justice the next year. In 1958 he left that position to become Norwegian
ambassador to the
Soviet Union
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, a post he held until 1961.
He was then appointed
Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1962 to 1963 during the
third cabinet Gerhardsen
Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet was the cabinet of Norway from 22 January 1955 to 28 August 1963. The government was led by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen
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. In August 1963 the
cabinet Lyng
The Lyng Cabinet governed Norway between 28 August 1963 and 25 September 1963. It was the first in 28 years not to be led by the Norwegian Labour Party. It was a centre-right coalition government of the Conservative Party, Centre Party, Chris ...
assumed office, but a
fourth cabinet Gerhardsen
Gerhardsen's Fourth Cabinet governed Norway between 25 September 1963 and 12 October 1965. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Einar Gerhardsen
Einar Henry Gerhardsen (; 10 May 1897 – 19 September 1987) was a Norwegian politician from the Lab ...
returned to power a month later. Gundersen was now Minister of Justice and the Police again, a post he held until the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen fell in 1965. He worked as a Supreme Court Justice for the second time, from 1967 to 1977.
From 1970 to 1973 he chaired the committee that delivered the
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18/1974, about
State Secretaries. The work led to a new §14 and an altered §62 in the
Constitution of Norway, leading to State Secretaries being eligible for general election and establishing the role as political. Propositions about granting access for State Secretaries to parliamentary debates without the ability to vote, to which Gundersen agreed, failed.
References
1908 births
1991 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Supreme Court of Norway justices
Ambassadors of Norway to the Soviet Union
Politicians from Trondheim
Mot Dag
Ministers of Justice of Norway
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