Dagfinn Vårvik | |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Primeminister: | Lars Korvald |
Term Start: | 18 October 1972 |
Term End: | 16 October 1973 |
Predecessor: | Andreas Cappelen |
Successor: | Knut Frydenlund |
Office1: | Minister of Finance |
Primeminister1: | John Lyng |
Term Start1: | 28 August 1963 |
Term End1: | 25 September 1963 |
Predecessor1: | Andreas Cappelen |
Successor1: | Andreas Cappelen |
Office2: | Minister of Pay and Prices |
Primeminister2: | Per Borten |
Term Start2: | 12 October 1965 |
Term End2: | 17 March 1971 |
Predecessor2: | Idar Norstrand |
Successor2: | Olav Gjærevoll |
Office3: | Leader of the Centre Party |
Term Start3: | 1973 |
Term End3: | 1977 |
Predecessor3: | John Austrheim |
Successor3: | Gunnar Stålsett |
Birth Date: | 8 June 1924 |
Birth Place: | Leinstrand, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway |
Death Place: | Oslo, Norway |
Party: | Centre |
Spouse: | Bjørg Presttrø |
Dagfinn Vårvik (8 June 1924 - 25 March 2018)[1] was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was born in Leinstrand.
Vårvik graduated with a cand.oecon. degree in 1951. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the term 1961 - 1965. He worked in the newspaper Nationen from 1961 to 1991, as a journalist except for the period 1963 to 1988 when he was editor-in-chief.From August to September 1963 he was Minister of Finance during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng.
He was later Minister of Wages and Prices from 1965 to 1971 during the cabinet Borten, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1973 during the cabinet Korvald. He was a deputy member of Oslo city council in 1971 - 1975 and served as the chairman of the Centre Party from 1973 to 1977.
Vårvik died on 25 March 2018 at the age of 93.[2]