Andreas Johannesen Hemma (31 October 1866 – 6 August 1950) was a Norwegian farmer and politician. He was born at Hemma in Brøttum as a son of farmers Johannes Larsen Hemma (1831–1875) and Kristine Biskopaasen (1836–1914). He took basic education, worked three years within commerce in Kristiania, then started working at the family farm which he inherited in 1893. In

Ringsaker is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Brumunddal. Other settlements in Ringsaker include the town of Moelv and the v ...

municipal council he was elected in 1898 and served for twenty years, and he was also a member of the school board. He participated in his first parliamentary election in

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, and was elected as a deputy representative to the

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for the Coalition Party, from the constituency ''Nordre Hedemarken''. His running mate E. Svartshoel was not elected, so that Hemma served as a deputy for Liberal

Wollert Konow (H) Wollert Konow (born 24 May 1847 in Bergen, died 25 October 1932) was a Norwegian politician and farmer. Konow was head of the Interior Ministry from 1891 to 1893, speaking as Foreign Minister in 1913 and central radicals for decades. In 1891 he w ...

. In the 1909 election he narrowly failed re-election as deputy. The Coalition Party was no more, but Hemma had joined the

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. Svartshoel had joined the

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, and they stood against Konow. Svartshoel and Hemma lost the first round; having carried the municipalities Furnes and Nes but lost Ringsaker. There was a second round of voting, but before it took place, Svartshoel died and Konow was allowed to run unopposed. In the 1912 election Hemma stood as deputy candidate, and won the first voting round together with his running mate Axel Krogvig. In the second round however, Konow won and carried ''Nordre Hedemarken''. From 1915 to 1918 Hemma was a central board member of the

. In the 1918 election things had turned around. Wollert Konow was fielded by the

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with the backing from the Liberal Left and Conservative parties. Hemma stood as his deputy, and they won comfortably. In

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there was a new election system with ballot lists; Hemma stood as seventh ballot candidate for the Agrarian Party but without chance of election. In

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he was the tenth candidate, in

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he was the fourth candidate and was elected as second deputy, and met for some months in Parliament in 1928 and 1930. In

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he was the eleventh candidate. He died in August 1950.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hemma, Andreas 1866 births 1950 deaths People from Ringsaker Norwegian farmers Deputy members of the Storting Coalition Party (Norway) politicians Free-minded Liberal Party politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians Centre Party (Norway) politicians