Klaus Sunnanå
Klaus Sunnanå (29 January 1905 – 22 January 1980) was a Norwegian Mot Dag member, economist and fisheries director.
He was born in
Labour Party in 1936.[1]
In 1935 Sunnanå was hired in the
Ministry of Provisioning-in-exile. After the war, from 1945 to 1947, he chaired Det økonomiske samordningsråd.[1]
From 1948 to his retirement in 1973 he served as the director of the Directorate of Fisheries. He also served as chairman of the
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation subcommittee for fisheries from 1949 to 1958 and the Food and Agriculture Organization Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture from 1970 to 1972. He was also involved in the Norwegian development aid project in Kerala.[1] The first Norwegian development aid project, it has been described as "an experiment for former Mot-Dag-ists". A significant motivation for the project was to please the leftist opposition within the Labour Party in a time of NATO membership and increased spendings on defence.[2]
Satisfying the leftist opposition could not prevent a party split in the long run. In 1962 Sunnanå joined the group Aksjon mot norsk medlemskap i Fellesmarkedet – de 143, a group of 143 people, many of them former Mot Dag members, who opposed Norwegian membership in the
European Community.[3] In 1972 Sunnanå left the Labour Party and instead supported the Socialist People's Party. He has been called "the Karl Evang of the fisheries sector", due to their similar career paths: Mot Dag membership, directorate leadership for many years, international organization involvement, involvement in the Kerala project as well as membership of the Labour Party until breaking out in the 1970s.[1]
Sunnanå was decorated as a Commander of the
Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1974. He was married twice,[1] and was an uncle of Lars Sigurd Sunnanå.[4] He died in January 1980 in Bergen.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Finstad, Bjørn-Petter. "Klaus Sunnanå". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- ISBN 82-03-16250-9.
- ^ Nordby, 1989: pp. 269–270
- ^ Valestrand, Terje (5 November 2005). "Den omstendelige reporteren". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). p. 8.