Dagfinn Vårvik Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dagfinn Vårvik er død. 25 March 2018. NRK. 23 July 2023.
  2. Web site: Dagfinn Vårvik er død. 25 March 2018. adressa.no. 23 July 2023.