Halfdan Hegtun

Halfdan Hegtun ( born October 18, 1918 in Raufoss, Vestre Toten municipality; † 25 December 2012) was a Norwegian philologist, author, radio, sports, and foreign reporters, comedians and from 1965 to 1973 eight years a deputy in the Storting, the Norwegian parliament.

Life

The elementary and middle school went through Hegtun 1924 to 1934 in his birthplace. He then received a further education in Gjøvik to 1937 on the Latin branch of the Municipal høyere almenskole. Cand. phil. he was at the University of Oslo in 1946 with a major in history with minors in Norwegian and German.

1949 began his career at Norsk Rikskringkasting, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK), which took him from 1973 to 1981 to the chair of the program director. As a reporter, his countrymen were especially his reporting of the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 in memory. He reported, among other things, the first victory of a Norwegian Olympic Summer Games there after 36 years, the spear thrower Egil Danielsen, or the bronze medal winning the 800 -meter runner Audun Boysen. Four years earlier he had been standing at the Olympic Winter Games 1952 in Oslo behind the microphone.

In 1954, he reported from the funeral of Crown Princess Märtha and 1957 from the funeral of King Haakon.

Politically, Hegtun had initially bound to the social-liberal Venstre. For them he was a candidate in the parliamentary election in Norway 1965 successfully in the constituency Akershus and could win the seat in 1969 again. In the middle of his second term in 1972, he moved but after the split of the Venstre his group belonging to the Liberal People's Party - Liberal folkepartiet Det. Apart from the participation in various committees, he also belonged Parliament delegations to NATO, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union or the Euro Europe. In 1988, Hegtun the reunification negotiations, so returned to the Venstre and then was active in local politics even in Bærum.

As an author Hegtun came variously under the pseudonym Even Brattbakken on, as well as under this name as a comic figure in the radio.

Awards

Halfdan Hegtun received by King Harald V 2 February 2010 fortjenstmedalje the Kongens, the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in gold.