Hakon Lunde (12 October 1918 – 2 October 2005) was a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He was born in

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as a son of wholesaler Ragnvald Bredo Lunde (1889–1964) and housewife Bergljot Iversen (1892–1987). He attended his first years of school in

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and

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from 1935 to 1937. During

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he was a soldier, first in the Norwegian Campaign. After irregular resistance work, he fled to Sweden, where he worked in the

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. He then continued to the United Kingdom, where he received further education in the

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- in-exile and the

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. Among others, he participated in the

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invasion, surviving the sinking of his ship, the destroyer HNoMS ''Svenner''. He became heavily decorated with the UK Defence Medal, the Norwegian Defence Medal with Star, the

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, the Norwegian War Medal with Star as well as two French and one Soviet medal. He chaired the ''Marinens Reserveoffiserers Forbund'' from 1948 to 1957, and received four veterancy awards between 1976 and 1991. From 1994 he chaired the Royal Norwegian Navy veterans' association. He contributed to erecting D-Day monuments at Vippetangen in 1992 and

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in 2004. From 1958 to 1998 he was the chairman of the company ''Hakon Lunde A/S''. He was also chairman of Westermoen Båtbyggeri & Mek. Verksted from 1950 to 1958 and ''

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'' from 1978 to 1983 (board member 1964 to 1978). He was a board member of

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from 1963 to 1983, '' Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende'' from 1970 to 1978,

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from 1971 to 1989, a member of the supervisory board of

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from 1990 to 1993 and of the corporate assembly of

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from 1996 to 2000. He was a member of the "council" of the

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from 1953 to 1996, chairing it from 1988 to 1996. He was a deputy member of the board of

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from 1996 to 2000, and of the corporate assembly of

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from 1998 to 2000. He served as a deputy representative to the

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from

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during the terms 1989–1993 and 1997–2001. In total he met during 108 days of parliamentary session. From 1995 to 1999 he was a deputy member of Oslo city council.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lunde, Hakon 1918 births 2005 deaths Norwegian Army personnel of World War II Royal Norwegian Navy personnel of World War II Progress Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Politicians from Oslo