Libertas (Norway)

Last updated

Libertas was a Norwegian libertarian business organisation.

Norway constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

It was founded in Oslo in 1947. The organisation's first secretary-general was jurist Trygve de Lange. It fought against the regulation politics of the Labour Party, and had considerable influence on conservatives in the 1950s and 1960s. It held lectures at Elingård in Fredrikstad from 1948, and published the magazine Nå from 1952 to 1995. Libertas was succeeded by the Liberal Research Institute in 1988. [1]

Oslo Place in Østlandet, Norway

Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. Founded in the year 1040 as Ánslo, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada, the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence, and with Sweden from 1814 to 1905 it functioned as a co-official capital. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in the king's honour. It was established as a municipality (formannskapsdistrikt) on 1 January 1838. The city's name was spelled Kristiania between 1877 and 1897 by state and municipal authorities. In 1925 the city was renamed Oslo.

Trygve de Lange was a Norwegian lawyer and secretary-general of Libertas.

Labour Party (Norway) Norwegian political party

The Labour Party, formerly the Norwegian Labour Party, is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It was the senior partner of the governing Red-Green Coalition from 2005 to 2013, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, was Prime Minister of Norway during that time. The party is currently led by Jonas Gahr Støre.

Trygve de Lange was secretary-general from 1947 to 1976. [1] The chairmen were Odd Berg (1947–1952), [2] Knut Halvorsen (–1965), Johan Hjort (1965–1968), Jens C. Hagen (1968–), Hjalmar Aass (–1978), Birger Halvorsen (1978–), [3] [4] [5] Johan Fredrik Biermann, Sverre Sunde and Sigurd Herlofson (1980s).

Odd Berg was a Norwegian ship-owner. He operated his own company, Odd Bergs Tankrederi, from 1929, and during the Second World War he was an assisting director of Nortraship. He was active in the Conservative Party and the Norwegian Shipowners' Association, and was the first chairman of Libertas.

Related Research Articles

Trygve Lie 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations

Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. Lie earned a reputation as a pragmatic, determined politician.

Eivind Erichsen was a Norwegian economist and civil servant.

Events in the year 1894 in Norway.

Thomas Christian Wyller was a professor of political science at the University of Oslo. He is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway, and his area of interest is modern political history.

Gustav Nicolay Aarestrup was a Norwegian jurist and businessperson. He was both chief executive officer and chair of Storebrand.

Asbjørn Engen was a Norwegian newspaper editor and organizational leader.

Tim Greve was a Norwegian historian, biographer, civil servant, diplomat and newspaper editor.

Harald Trygve Heltveit was a Norwegian philologist.

Johan Johannson was a Norwegian businessperson.

Odd Berg was a Norwegian ship-owner.

Knut Hald was a Norwegian businessperson, best known as chief executive of the Federation of Norwegian Industries from 1945 to 1965.

Christian Anker was a Norwegian businessperson.

Trygve Jacobsen was a Norwegian businessperson.

Johan Christian Heuch Bugge was a Norwegian barrister.

Odd Kjeldsberg Stub was a Norwegian physician. He was best known as chief physician at Trondheim Hospital and chair of the Norwegian Hospital Association, and specialized in fighting tuberculosis.

Edward Christian Mowinckel-Larsen was a Norwegian engineer, civil servant and secretary-general of Norges Varemesse.

Jacob Ager Laurantzon was a Norwegian military officer with the rank of Major General.

References

  1. 1 2 "Libertas – norsk næringslivsorganisasjon". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 29 May 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Berg, Odd". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 47. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Høyesterettsadvokat Johan Hjort ny formann i Libertas". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 9 January 1965.
  4. ↑ "Ny formann i Libertas". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 14 December 1968.
  5. ↑ "Ås-politiker ny formann i Libertas". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 27 December 1978.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.