Office: | Minister of Petroleum and Energy |
Term Start: | 14 October 1981 |
Term End: | 8 June 1983 |
Primeminister: | Kåre Willoch |
Predecessor: | Arvid Johanson |
Successor: | Kåre Kristiansen |
Birth Date: | 27 March 1921 |
Birth Place: | Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway |
Death Place: | Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway |
Spouse: | Grete Blydt Qvisler Tone Barth Marie Palmstrøm |
Party: | Conservative |
Vidkunn Hveding (27 March 1921 – 19 May 2001) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, and the Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1981–1983.[1] Hveding was born in Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, and was a civil engineer by profession.[2] He was married to Marie Palmstrøm (1 September 1926 – 1 October 1986) from 1948 to 1963, and remarried in 1963 to Tone Barth (25 January 1924 - 10 October 1980), the sister of Professor of Social Anthropology Fredrik Barth (b. 1928).[3]