Oscar Christian Gundersen

Oscar Christian Gundersen (17 March 1908 – 21 February 1991) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Oscar Christian Gundersen
Gundersen in ca. 1940
Minister of Justice
In office
25 September 1963 – 12 October 1965
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byPetter Mørch Koren
Succeeded byElisabeth S. Selmer
In office
5 November 1945 – 20 December 1952
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Oscar Torp
Preceded byJohan Cappelen
Succeeded byKai Birger Knudsen
Minister of Trade and Shipping
In office
13 January 1962 – 28 August 1963
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byArne Skaug
Succeeded byKåre Willoch
Norwegian Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office
30 August 1958 – 2 September 1961
Prime MinisterEinar Gerhardsen
Preceded byErik Braadland
Succeeded byFrithjof Jacobsen
Personal details
Born(1908-03-17)17 March 1908
Kristiania, Norway
Died21 February 1991(1991-02-21) (aged 82)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyLabour
SpouseRagna Lorentzen (m. 1937)
OccupationPolitician, lawyer, judge and diplomat

During his student days he was a member of Mot Dag.[1] Gundersen graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1931. During Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet he was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police, a post he a year into the new Torp's Cabinet. He left in 1952 and became a Supreme Court Justice the next year. In 1958 he left that position to become Norwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he held until 1961.[2]

He was then appointed Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1962 to 1963 during the third cabinet Gerhardsen. In August 1963 the cabinet Lyng assumed office, but a fourth cabinet Gerhardsen returned to power a month later. Gundersen was now Minister of Justice and the Police again, a post he held until the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen fell in 1965. He worked as a Supreme Court Justice for the second time, from 1967 to 1977.

From 1970 to 1973 he chaired the committee that delivered the Norwegian Official Report 18/1974, about State Secretaries. The work led to a new §14 and an altered §62 in the Constitution of Norway, leading to State Secretaries being eligible for general election and establishing the role as political. Propositions about granting access for State Secretaries to parliamentary debates without the ability to vote, to which Gundersen agreed, failed.

References
  1. Bull, Trygve (1987). Mot Dag og Erling Falk (in Norwegian) (4th ed.). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 212.
  2. "Oscar Christian Gundersen" (in Norwegian). Storting.



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