Terje Wold (23 August 1899 – 6 September 1972) was a
Norwegian
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judge and politician for the
Labour Party.
Terje Wold was born in
Evenes
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. He graduated as
cand.jur. in 1921. He worked as a jurist, becoming a
Supreme Court Justice of Norway in 1950. From 1958 to 1969 he was the 15th
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was a member of the
United Nations War Crimes Commission
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from 1945 to 1946 and the
European Court of Human Rights
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from 1959 to 1972. He presided at the
World Association of Judges from 1969 to 1972.
Wold was appointed
Minister of Justice
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during the
cabinet Nygaardsvold
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Nygaardsvold's Cabinet (later becoming the Norwegian government-in-exile, Norwegian: ''Norsk eksilregjering'') was appointed on 20 March 1935, the second Labour cabinet in Norway. It brought to an end the non-socialist minority Gover ...
, and sat from 1939 to 1945. From 1940 to 1942 he was acting
Minister of Trade. He was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament
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from
Finnmark
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in 1945, and served one term. On the local level he had been a member of
Vadsø
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city council from 1925 to 1928 and 1931 to 1936, serving as mayor in 1928 and 1934 to 1936. From 1937 to 1939 he was a member of
Tromsø
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city council.
He published several books. He was appointed Commander with Star of the
Order of St. Olav in 1958.
References
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1899 births
1972 deaths
People from Evenes
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Mayors of Vadsø
Politicians from Tromsø
Chief justices of Norway
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Ministers of Justice of Norway
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