Olav Gjærevoll (24 September 1916 – 30 August 1994) was a Norwegian

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and politician for the Labour Party. Gjærevoll was a professor of botany at the

University of Trondheim A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', whic ...

from 1958 to 1986, and was a specialist in alpine plants. In politics, he served as Minister of Social Affairs from February to August 1963 and again from September 1963 to October 1965; as the last Minister of Pay and Prices from 1971 to 1972 and as the first Minister of the Environment from May to October 1972. He also served as Mayor of Trondheim from 1958 to 1963 and again from 1980 to 1981.

Biography

He was born in Tynset. He held a variety of minister positions in different Norwegian cabinets. He was

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in 1963 and 1963–1965, interrupted by the short-lived cabinet Lyng, Minister of Wages and Prices in the first cabinet Bratteli 1971–1972 and then the first Minister of the Environment in 1972. As an elected politician he was elected to the

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from

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in 1965. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1958–1961 and 1961–1965. On the local level he was a member of Trondheim city council from 1951 to 1963, 1967 to 1968 and 1979 to 1987, serving as mayor for two periods 1958–1963 and 1979–1981.

References

*
Olav Gjærevoll private archive
is kept at NTNU University Library

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* 1916 births 1994 deaths People from Tynset Government ministers of Norway Ministers of Climate and the Environment of Norway Mayors of Trondheim Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians University of Oslo alumni Uppsala University alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology 20th-century Norwegian botanists 20th-century Norwegian politicians Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub