Tønnes Madsson Andenæs (25 June 1923 – 22 February 1975) was a Norwegian jurist, book publisher and politician for the Labour Party.

Biography

He was born at

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, Norway. he was a son of vicar Mads Olsen Andenæs (1855–1942) and his wife Signe Theoline Mydland (1883–1958). The family moved to Bærum when Tønnes Andenæs was two years old. He was a brother of Johs. Andenæs, and through him an uncle of Mads H. Andenæs. His own son Mads T. Andenæs (born 1957) became a professor of law. During the

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, young Andenæs became involved in the illegal press. He was arrested, but escaped via neutral Sweden to the United Kingdom. He underwent pilot training in

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, from 1944. After the war he was decorated with the

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. He enrolled at the

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, and graduated with the

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degree in 1955. He finished lawyer training in 1958. At the same time he was the chief executive of a publishing company, Akademisk Forlag. In 1956 it changed its name to

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. He remained here until his death. He also wrote books himself. His 1949 release ''Grunnloven vår. Utgave for selvstudium'' about the

Constitution of Norway The 'Constitution of Norway'' (complete name: The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway; Danish language, Danish: ; Norwegian language, Norwegian Bokmål: ; Nynorsk, Norwegian Nynorsk: ) was adopted on 16 May and signed on 17 May 1814 by the N ...

has been reissued twelve times, the last in 1993, and has been translated to English (1951), French (1962) and German (1964). He was also involved in cultural work, chairing the Norwegian-Faroese friendship society from 1947 to 1959 and the Norwegian-Icelandic friendship society from 1960 to 1965. He was decorated with the

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in 1965. Andenæs was a member of

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from 1963 to 1971, and a member of the school board for the same period. From January to October 1965 he was a part of

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, as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Church Affairs and Education. He also had a hiatus from 1967 to 1968, when he worked as an advisor at the

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. He was elected to the

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from the constituency

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1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ...

, and was re-elected in

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. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Transport during the first term, and then of the Standing Committee on Public Administration. He died midway in his last term, in the

Tretten train disaster The Tretten train disaster occurred on 22 February 1975 when a northbound train (no. 351) from Oslo and a southbound express train (no. 404) from Trondheim, both loaded with vacationing skiers, collided head-on north of Tretten station. With 27 ki ...

, and was replaced with Svein Gunnar Morgenlien.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andenaes, Tonnes 1923 births 1975 deaths People from Stryn Norwegian resistance members Bredtveit concentration camp survivors Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Norwegian expatriates in Canada Norwegian World War II pilots Royal Norwegian Air Force personnel of World War II University of Oslo alumni Norwegian book publishers (people) Norwegian non-fiction writers Bærum politicians Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians Knights of the Order of the Falcon Railway accident deaths in Norway 20th-century Norwegian writers Members of the Storting 1973–1977 Members of the Storting 1969–1973