The Norwegian Ministry of Postal Affairs (Norwegian : Postdepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry that existed from 1860 to 1861. It was responsible for postal affairs.
It was established on 18 August 1860 as a successor of the General Post Directorate, which had been separated from the Ministry of the Interior as a government agency in 1857. It ceased to exist already on 1 October 1861, when it was merged with the Ministry of the Navy to form the Norwegian Ministry of the Navy and Postal Affairs. [1]
The heads of the Ministry of Postal Affairs were Ketil Motzfeldt (1860), Erik Røring Møinichen (1860-1861), Christian Ludvig Diriks (temporary, 1861) and Erik Røring Møinichen again (1861). [2]
A short-lived Ministry of Postal Affairs existed for some months in 1885. It was headed by Birger Kildal. [3]
Photo | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet |
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Ketil Motzfeldt | Independent | 18 August 1860 | 31 October 1860 | 74 days | Sibbern/Birch/Motzfeldt | |
Erik Røring Møinichen | Independent | 1 November 1860 | 12 August 1861 | 284 days | Sibbern/Birch/Motzfeldt | |
Christian Ludvig Diriks | Independent | 12 August 1861 | 24 August 1861 | 12 days | Sibbern/Birch/Motzfeldt | |
Erik Røring Møinichen | Independent | 24 August 1861 | 30 September 1861 | 37 days | Sibbern/Birch/Motzfeldt | |
Birger Kildal | Liberal | 1 May 1885 | 31 December 1885 | 244 days | Sverdrup | |
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