Abraham Berge

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Abraham Theodor Berge
Magnus Halvorsen
Minister of Education and Church Affairs
In office
23 October 1907 – 19 March 1908
Prime MinisterJørgen Løvland
Preceded byOtto Jensen
Succeeded byKarl Seip
Personal details
Born
Abraham Theodor Berge

(1851-08-20)20 August 1851
Lyngdal,  Norway
Died10 July 1936(1936-07-10) (aged 84)
Tønsberg,  Norway
Political partyFree-minded Liberal
Other political
affiliations		Liberal
SpouseAnne Elisabeth Kylleberg
Profession
Awards Order of St. Olav

Abraham Theodor Berge (20 August 1851 – 10 July 1936) was the 15th

prime minister of Norway from 1923 to 1924. He was a teacher and civil servant who represented the Liberal Party, the social liberal party, and later Free-minded Liberal Party, a right-of-centre party. [1]

Biography

Berge was born at

County Governor of Jarlsberg og Larvik amt, a position he held until 1924.[2]

Berge started his political career in Lista in the present-day municipality of

Minister of Culture and Church Affairs and Minister of Finance. Then, after a 10-year absence from politics, he became again Minister of Finance, and later also Prime Minister, when sitting Prime Minister Otto Bahr Halvorsen died. He resigned this post as the result of the defeat in a vote to lift prohibition.[3]

In 1926 he became the only Norwegian prime minister to ever be

impeached. The charge was withholding information relating to the government rescue of a bank threatened by bankruptcy. However, he was acquitted in 1927, along with the six ministers who stood trial alongside him.[4]

Selected works

  • Listerlandets kystværn og kaperfart 1807–14 (Tønsberg 1914) and Lista. En bygdebok (Tønsberg 1926). Both books reprinted 2006 by sokkhammer Forlag AS.

References

  1. ^ "Abraham Berge, Prime Minister 1923 - 1924". Government.no. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  2. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget
    . Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  3. ^ Svein Carstens. "Abraham Berge, Lærer, Politiker". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  4. ^ "Abraham Theodor Berge". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
Political offices
Preceded by
County Governor of Jarlsberg og Larvik amt

1908–1924 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Prime Minister of Norway

1923–1924 		Succeeded by
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