Christian Wegner Haaland (6 February 1892 – 20 October 1952) was a Norwegian ship-owner and politician for the
Conservative Party.
Biography
Haaland was born at
Haugesund in
Rogaland, Norway.
He was the son of Thomas Wegner Christiansen Haaland (1859–1913) and Anna Christine Knudsen (1866–1923).
After attending business school in Kristiania, he trained at shipping offices in
London
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. Together with his father-in-law Knut Knutsen,
Haaland started a shipping company in 1914. By 1919 he established his own office.
From 1937 to 1940 he was the president of the
Norwegian Shipowners' Association
The Norwegian Shipowners Association () is an employers' organization and interest group for Norwegian shipping and offshore companies. The organization's primary fields are national and international industry policies, employer issues, competenc ...
.
He served as a deputy representative to the
Norwegian Parliament
The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...
from the
Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties The Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties ( no, Kjøpstedene i Vest-Agder og Rogaland fylker) was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns ( no, kjøpsteder) of Flekkefjord, Kristiansand a ...
during the term 1945–1949.
He was the mayor of
Haugesund in 1925, 1928–1931 and 1945.
[
He was married 1915 to Ida Karoline Knutsen (1894–1948), daughter of shipowner Knut Knutsen (1871–1946) and Elisabeth Tobine Bakke (1867–1957).
After Haaland's death in 1952, the company continued under the leadership of his son Thomas Chr. Haaland (1917–75). ]
References
Other sources
*Eilertsen, Grete (2016) ''Rederne og byen. En undersøkelse av rederstandens engasjement i Haugesund ca. 1870-1940'' (University of Bergen)
*Hammerborg, Morten (2003) ''Skipsfartsbyen: Haugesunds skipsfartshistorie 1850–2000'' (Bergen : Eide)
1892 births
1952 deaths
Deputy members of the Storting
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of places in Rogaland
People from Haugesund
Norwegian businesspeople in shipping
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
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