Per Karstensen

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Per Magnus Karstensen (22 October 1915 – 24 December 2010) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the

Labour Party
.

Career

He was born in

cand.philol. degree in 1951. He worked as a school teacher in Bodin and Nord-Rana from 1940 to 1944, then in Mo i Rana from 1944. He was promoted to school inspector in 1961, and served as school director of Nordland from 1971 to 1973.[1]

He became involved in politics, and was deputy mayor of Nord-Rana municipality during the terms 1945–1947 and 1959–1963, mayor of Nord-Rana from 1963 to 1964 and of its successor municipality

He was a member of the Hålogaland Court of Appeal from 1946 to 1965. He was also a board member of Riksteatret from 1965 to 1981, Biblioteksentralen from 1969 to 1976, the bank Nordlandsbanken from 1970 to 1978 and the newspaper Rana Blad from 1983 to 1987. He was a member of the Norwegian UNESCO Commission from 1973 to 1977 and the Broadcasting Council from 1982 to 1986.[1] He issued several books on local history.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Per Karstensen" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  2. ^
    Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 8 February 2011.