Andreas Zeier Cappelen | |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start: | 17 March 1971 |
Term End: | 18 October 1972 |
Primeminister: | Trygve Bratteli |
Predecessor: | Svenn Stray |
Successor: | Dagfinn Vårvik |
Office1: | Minister of Finance |
Term Start1: | 25 September 1963 |
Term End1: | 12 October 1965 |
Predecessor1: | Dagfinn Vårvik |
Successor1: | Ole Myrvoll |
Term Start2: | 4 February 1963 |
Term End2: | 28 August 1963 |
Primeminister2: | Einar Gerhardsen |
Predecessor2: | Petter Jakob Bjerve |
Successor2: | Dagfinn Vårvik |
Office3: | Minister of Justice |
Primeminister3: | Odvar Nordli |
Term Start3: | 8 October 1979 |
Term End3: | 3 October 1980 |
Predecessor3: | Inger Louise Valle |
Successor3: | Oddvar Berrefjord |
Office4: | Minister of Local Government |
Primeminister4: | Einar Gerhardsen |
Term Start4: | 1 September 1958 |
Term End4: | 4 February 1963 |
Successor4: | Oskar Skogly |
Office5: | Deputy Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
Term Start5: | 1 October 1961 |
Term End5: | 30 September 1965 |
Constituency5: | Rogaland |
Birth Name: | Andreas Zeier Cappelen |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1915 |
Birth Place: | Vang, Hedmark, Norway |
Death Place: | Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Occupation: | Jurist Politician |
Spouse: | Christiane Borchgrevink (1941-1947) Olene Liberg (1948-1987) |
Children: | Ådne Cappelen |
Andreas Zeier Cappelen (31 January 1915 – 2 September 2008) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Vang, Hedmark.
He held a variety of positions in different Norwegian cabinets. He was Minister of Local Government Affairs in 1958–1963 in the third cabinet Gerhardsen, Minister of Finance in 1963 and 1963–1965 only interrupted by the short-lived cabinet Lyng, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first cabinet Bratteli in 1971–1972, and finally Minister of Justice 1979–1980 in the cabinet Nordli.
As an elected politician he served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland during the term 1961–1965. On the local level he was a member of Stavanger city council in the periods 1945–1947, 1951–1957, 1967 - 1971 and 1983–1987, serving as deputy mayor briefly in 1953. He was also a member of Rogaland county council from 1966 to 1969. He chaired the county party chapter from 1956 to 1957. Besides politics he worked as a lawyer and a judge, having graduated as cand.jur. in 1939.
With his brothers he was a member of Mot Dag in the 1930s.[1]
. Trygve Bull. Mot Dag og Erling Falk. 4th. 1987. Cappelen. Oslo. Norwegian. 213.