Anders John Aune (1 May 1923 – 13 November 2011) was a Norwegian politician. He was the county governor of

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from 1974-1989. He was also a member of the

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Personal life

Anders Aune was born on 1 May 1923 in Stjørna Municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county,

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. His parents were Andreas Aune, a municipal treasurer, and Josefa Dragland, a homemaker. During the

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he took part in the

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. He was arrested in November 1943, sent from Stavern to Stettin in December 1943, then sent to

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the same month and to

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one year later, where he remained until the war's end. In 1953, he married Sigrun Wedding Johannessen. He died on 13 November 2011.

Education and career

He graduated from the

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as cand.jur. in 1948 and worked as a civil servant. He was a member of the municipal council for Vadsø Municipality from 1951 to 1963, serving as deputy mayor in 1951–1952 and

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in 1953–1955 and again from 1955–1959. He was also the director of a hospital in Finnmark from 1954-1959. In 1963, he was appointed to be the Acting County Governor of Finnmark since the newly appointed governor ( Kolbjørn Varmann) was serving in the Storting and he wanted to fulfill his term in office before moving to Finnmark. Aune was acting governor until 1965 when Varmann could take up the role. Originally a member of the Labour Party, Aune was elected to the

for

county in 1969, but was not re-elected in 1973. In 1974, Varmann resigned as county governor and Aune was appointed to replace him. He held this post from 1974 to 1989. Aune had planned to retire after being county governor, but in the

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, Aune stood for election for another party—a new party led by himself and called

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(''Framtid for Finnmark''). He was elected to the national parliament for this regional

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, but again sat only one term. In 1993, he retired. In 1985, he was proclaimed Commander of the

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, and also received the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aune, Anders 1923 births 2011 deaths People from Rissa, Norway Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting County governors of Norway Mayors of Vadsø University of Oslo alumni Norwegian civil servants Norwegian resistance members Buchenwald concentration camp survivors Sennheim concentration camp survivors 20th-century Norwegian politicians