Klaus Hanssen Explained

Klaus Hanssen (23 May 1844 - 19 December 1914) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Liberal Party and the Coalition Party.

He was born in Bergen, a son of merchant Claus Hansen and Elisabeth Schram, and was a brother of Gerhard Armauer Hansen. He was first married to Ida Christine Johannessen, and a second time to Dorothea Marstrand Serck.^[1] He was the father of mining executive Klaus Serck-Hanssen,^[2] and grandfather of Arne Serck-Hanssen.^[3]

He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the terms 1889 - 1891, representing the constituency Bergen. He was a member of Bergen city council for several years,^[4] and served as mayor in 1894.^[5] He later joined the Coalition Party, and served as a parliamentary deputy again during the term 1904 - 1906.^[4]

Born in Bergen, he graduated as cand.med. in 1872 and worked as a physician the rest of his professional life.^[4]

Notes and References

Encyclopedia: Klaus Hanssen . Norsk biografisk leksikon. Odd Didrik . Lærum . Helle, Knut. Kunnskapsforlaget . Oslo . Norwegian . 6 December 2014.
Encyclopedia: 1973. Serck-Hanssen, Klaus . Hvem er hvem?. Steenstrup, Bjørn. Aschehoug. Oslo. 499 - 500 . Norwegian. 6 December 2014.
Encyclopedia: Fridrichsen . Anton . Anton Fridrichsen . Studentene fra 1904: biografiske oplysninger samlet til 25-årsjubileet 1929 . Serck-Hanssen, Klaus . 1929 . Grøndahl . Oslo . 335–336 . Norwegian .
http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=11123 Klaus Hanssen
Web site: Ordførere i Bergen kommune fra 1837 - 2007 . 2008-10-06 . Bergen municipality . Norwegian . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120213153859/https://www.bergen.kommune.no/portal/page/portal/bkinternet/subpage3?id=T6892&m2_mode=&k1_mode=hide&m3_mode=spot2&re1_mode=spot1&re2_mode=spot2&re3_mode=artcenter&sectionId=988 . 2012-02-13 .