Ola T. Lånke | |
Office: | Vice President of the Odelsting |
Term Start: | 2 October 2006 |
Term End: | 30 September 2009 |
President: | Inge Lønning |
Predecessor: | Jon Lilletun |
Successor: | Position abolished |
Office2: | Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
Term Start2: | 1 October 1993 |
Term End2: | 30 September 2009 |
Constituency2: | Sør-Trøndelag |
Birth Date: | 18 March 1948 |
Birth Place: | Rennebu, Norway |
Occupation: | Politician |
Party: | Christian Democratic |
Father: | Arnt Lånke |
Mother: | Elise Randine Espås |
Ola Torgeir Lånke (born 18 March 1948 in Rennebu) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
Lånke was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1993, and has been re-elected on three occasions. On the local level he was a member of Trondheim city council from 1991 to 1993.
Lånke was the chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party, from 1975 to 1976. Since 1997 he has been a member of the national Christian Democratic Party board.
Outside politics Lånke has worked as a priest, having graduated from the MF Norwegian School of Theology as cand.theol. in 1977.