Kurt Mosbakk

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Kurt Mosbakk
Governor of Finnmark
In office
January 1990 – May 1990
Preceded byAnders John Aune
Succeeded byIngrid Røstad Fløtten
Personal details
Born (1934-11-21) 21 November 1934 (age 89)
Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
CitizenshipNorway
Political partyLabour
Parents
  • Henrik Mosbakk (father)
  • Jenny Mathea Traasdahl (mother)
EducationHarvard University (1966)
ProfessionPolitician

Kurt Mosbakk (born 21 November 1934) is a

County Governor of Finnmark county for about five months during 1990.[1]

Personal life

He was born on 21 November 1934 in the municipality of Orkdal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. He was the son of a joiner and a housewife, Henrik and Jenny Marthea Mosbakk.

Education and career

Mosbakk took his primary and secondary education in

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration from 1955 to 1958 and Harvard University from 1965 to 1966.[2]

From 1964 to 1965, under the

Ministry of Defence. He had been chairman of the Workers' Youth League in Oslo from 1961 to 1963, and deputy chairman of the Workers' Youth League nationally from 1964 to 1967.[2] The chairman at that time was Ola Teigen
.

He worked as an office clerk for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1974. During this period, he had a career in local politics as deputy mayor of Lørenskog municipality and a member of the Akershus county council, both from 1971 to 1974. He chaired the county chapter of the Labour Party from 1969 to 1974. He also served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1973–1977.[2]

Mosbakk then worked as chief administrative officer in

County Governor of Finnmark in 1990.[3]

Mosbakk was a member of the board of

SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge from 1989 to 2000.[2]

References

  1. . Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Kurt Mosbakk" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  3. ^ Cahoon, Ben (2000). "Norwegian County Governors". Retrieved 2016-01-24.
Political offices
Preceded by
Norwegian Minister of Trade and Shipping

9 May 1986–1 January 1988
Ministerial post abolished
New ministerial post Chief of Trade and Shipping Affairs
at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1 January 1988–13 June 1988
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by
County Governor of Finnmark
January 1990–May 1990
(acting for Svein Alsaker
)
Succeeded by