Kaare Meland Explained

Office:Minister of Industry
Term Start:28 August 1963
Term End:25 September 1963
Primeminister:John Lyng
Predecessor:Trygve Lie
Successor:Trygve Lie
Office2:Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Term Start2:1 October 1965
Term End2:30 September 1969
Constituency2:Hordaland
Office3:Deputy Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Term Start3:1 January 1954
Term End3:30 September 1961
Constituency3:Hordaland
Birth Date:22 May 1915
Birth Place:Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Nationality:Norwegian
Party:Conservative

Kaare Meland (22 May 1915  - 31 December 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Bergen.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1965, but was not re-elected in 1969. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1954 - 1957 and 1958 - 1961. From August to September 1963 he served as the Minister of Industry during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng.

Meland was a member of Fana municipality council from 1945 to 1951, and later became mayor from 1956 - 1959. In 1955 - 1959 he was also a member of Hordaland county council.

Outside politics he graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1939 and became an authorized financial auditor in 1945. He was CEO of Bergens sparebank from 1964 to 1980.