Vidkunn Hveding (27 March 1921 – 19 May 2001) was a
Norwegian
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politician
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for the
Conservative Party, and the
Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1981–1983.
Hveding was born in Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, and was a
civil engineer by profession.
He was married to Marie Palmstrøm (1 September 1926 – 1 October 1986) from 1948 to 1963, and remarried in 1963 to Tone Barth (25 January 1924 - 10 October 1980), the sister of Professor of Social Anthropology
Fredrik Barth
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston Univ ...
(b. 1928).
References
1921 births
2001 deaths
Petroleum and energy ministers of Norway
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
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