| Abraham Theodor Berge | |
| Office: | 15th Prime Minister of Norway |
| Term Start: | 30 May 1923 |
| Term End: | 25 July 1924 |
| Predecessor: | Otto B. Halvorsen |
| Successor: | Johan Ludwig Mowinckel |
| Office2: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start2: | 6 March 1923 |
| Term End2: | 25 July 1924 |
| Predecessor2: | Otto Blehr |
| Successor2: | Arnold Holmboe |
| Primeminister2: | Otto B. Halvorsen Himself |
| Term Start3: | 2 February 1910 |
| Term End3: | 20 February 1912 |
| Predecessor3: | Gunnar Knudsen |
| Successor3: | Fredrik L. Konow |
| Primeminister3: | Wollert Konow |
| Term Start4: | 7 November 1906 |
| Term End4: | 23 October 1907 |
| Predecessor4: | Edvard H. Bull |
| Successor4: | Magnus Halvorsen |
| Primeminister4: | Christian Michelsen |
| Office5: | Minister of Education and Church Affairs |
| Term Start5: | 23 October 1907 |
| Term End5: | 19 March 1908 |
| Predecessor5: | Otto Jensen |
| Successor5: | Karl Seip |
| Primeminister5: | Jørgen Løvland |
| Birth Name: | Abraham Theodor Berge |
| Birth Date: | 20 August 1851 |
| Birth Place: | Lyngdal,  Norway |
| Death Place: | Tønsberg, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Spouse: | Anne Elisabeth Kylleberg |
| Awards: | Order of St. Olav |
| Party: | Free-minded Liberal |
| Otherparty: | Liberal |
| Profession: | |
Abraham Theodor Berge (20 August 1851 – 10 July 1936) was the 15th prime minister of Norway from 1923 to 1924. He was a teacher and civil servant who represented the Liberal Party, the social liberal party, and later Free-minded Liberal Party, a right-of-centre party. [1]
Berge was born at Lyngdal in Lister og Mandals amt (present-day Vest-Agder), Norway . He was the son of Johan Tobias Johnsen Berge (1813–1883) and Helene Andreasdatter Kvalsvig. He attended the teacher's course offered by Reinert Rødland in Lyngdal. In 1867, Berge became teacher at the Nordbygda skole in Vanse. He also served as sheriff in Vanse from 1904 to 1908. In 1908, Berge was appointed County Governor of Jarlsberg og Larvik amt, a position he held until 1924.[2]
Berge started his political career in Lista in the present-day municipality of Farsund, where he was in 1882 elected mayor. From here he went on to the Norwegian Parliament in 1891. He served, in different periods, as both Minister of Culture and Church Affairs and Minister of Finance. Then, after a 10-year absence from politics, he became again Minister of Finance, and later also Prime Minister, when sitting Prime Minister Otto Bahr Halvorsen died. He resigned this post as the result of the defeat in a vote to lift prohibition.[3]
In 1926 he became the only Norwegian prime minister to ever be impeached. The charge was withholding information relating to the government rescue of a bank threatened by bankruptcy. However, he was acquitted in 1927, along with the six ministers who stood trial alongside him.[4]