Andreas Zeier Cappelen Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bull, Trygve. Trygve Bull

    . Trygve Bull. Mot Dag og Erling Falk. 4th. 1987. Cappelen. Oslo. Norwegian. 213.