Ingeborg Botnen (9 February 1934 – 17 March 2022) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. She was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1981 to 1993, representing

Telemark Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional ...

Political career

Local politics

Botnen was elected member of the municipal council in

Tinn Tinn is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of Upper Telemark and Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Rjukan. The parish of ...

from 1963 to 1983, and from 1995 to 1999.

Parliament

She was elected representative to the Storting from the constituency of

for three periods. During the first period, from 1981 to 1985, she was a member of ''Kommunal- og miljøvernkomiteen''. During her second period, she was a member of the

Standing Committee on Transport and Communications The Standing Committee on Transport and Communications ( no, Transport- og kommunikasjonskomiteen) is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating to transport, postal services, telecommunications, elect ...

from 1985 to 1986, and of the

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence ( no, Utenriks- og forsvarskomiteen) is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating foreign affairs, military, development cooperation, Svalbard or ...

from 1986 to 1989. During her third period at the Storting, from 1989 to 1993, she was a member of the

Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs The Standing Committee on Education and Church Affairs ( no, Kirke, utdannings- og forskningskomiteen) is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating to education, research and church affairs. It corre ...

, and of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs from 1992 to 1993.

Administrative positions

Botnen was a board member of The Norwegian Writers' Center from 1972 to 1980. She was board member of the film production company

Norsk Film Norsk Film was a Norwegian film production company established in 1932 and disestablished in 2001. It was located in Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast ...

from 1980 to 1981, board member of the

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities ( no, KS) is an employers' organisation in Norway. It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities (''Norges Byforbund'', founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Ass ...

from 1980 to 1984, and board member of the

Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library The Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library ( no, Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek, Arbark) is an archival and historical institution in Oslo, Norway, opened in 1909. It was established and is still owned by the Norwegian Confederatio ...

from 1982. She was board member of the

Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum ( no, Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum) is an industrial museum located at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. Located in the Vemork power station, it was established in 1988 to allow the preservation of industrial society crea ...

from 1996 to 2000.

Personal life

Botnen was born in

Brandbu Brandbu is a village in Gran Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in Hadeland, along the eastern shore of the large lake Randsfjorden, about to the northwest of the capital city of Oslo. Brandbu and its neighbori ...

on 9 February 1934, a daughter of Kristen Stenbråten and Kari Løvbrøtte. She was educated as librarian, and managed the public library in

Rjukan Rjukan () is a town and the administrative centre of Tinn municipality in Telemark, Norway. It is situated in Vestfjorddalen, between Møsvatn and Lake Tinn, and got its name after Rjukan Falls west of the town. The Tinn municipality council gra ...

from 1972 to 2003. She died on 17 March 2022, at the age of 88.

References

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