Bjørn Skau

Bjørn Skau ( born February 26, 1929 in Brogge, community Horten, Vestfold province; † March 2, 2013 in Fredrikstad ) was a Norwegian politician Arbeiderpartiet (Det norske Arbeiderparti ).

Life

Skau was the son of Johan Fredrik Skau (1887-1975) and the housewife Marie Ingeborg Halvorsen (1890-1966) in the small village Brogge born in the province of Vestfold. His sister Annie Skau Berntsen (1911-1992) later became a missionary in China and Hong Kong. His brother Leif Skau, was from 1970 to 1976 Chairman of the Norwegian trade union Jorg og metal. Skaus parents were, as he himself later, active in the national labor movement. Skau itself was mentally deeply rooted in the labor movement.

Skau began his career in 1945 as a journalist. He graduated from 1946 to 1948, a journalism training and worked until 1957 in his profession as a journalist. He worked for the newspaper close to the Arbeiderpartiet Nybrott in Larvik.

Politically, he was first active in local politics; 1951-1955 and 1955-1957 he was a member of the City Council of Larvik ( Larvik kommunestyre ). Politically he was active since the early 1950s in the work ern Ungdomsfylking (AUF), the youth organization of Arbeiderpartiet, the Social Democratic Party of Norway. He was from 1952 to 1958 a member of the National Executive and Deputy Chairman of the UP.

In 1957, he took a short time to study and was in the same year consultant ( Consultant ) at Statens Edruskapsråd, the state liquor commission; there he remained until 1959. 1959 he was under the government of Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen Secretary ( Politisk Secretary) in Arbeids -og sosialdepartementet (ASD ), the Norwegian Ministry of Labour, Health, Social Policy and Immigration. From 1961 to 1965 he was then Secretary of State ( Statssekretær ) in Sosialdepartementet. In August / September 1963, he briefly lost during the reign of John Lyng his office as Secretary of State, however, was again with the reelection Gerhardsens in September 1963 Secretary of State.

Skau was after his Ministerialtätigkeit then active again in local politics and active in public administration. He was from 1967 to 1975 City Manager ( RADMANN ) in Skjeberg, Østfold province.

From 1975 to 1977 he was then head of section in the Culture Department of the Nordic Council ( Nordisk Ministerråd ). From 1978 to 1986 he was in the county administration of the province ( county) Buskerud head of the Food and Drug Administration ( Fylkeshelsesjef Buskerud fylkeskommune ) with headquarters in Drammen.

During this time, Skau returned for a brief interlude back in the Norwegian national policy. He was from February 1981 to October 1981 in the First Cabinet of Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland briefly Minister of Justice and Minister of Police.

From 1988 to 1993 he was Director ( Direktør ) of the Provincial Hospital in Buskerud ( Buskerud Sentralsykehus ).

Skau was from 1981 to 1984 Chairman of the Buskerud Arbeiderparti, the provincial organization of the Social Democratic Arbeiderpartiet. From 1981 to 1985 he was a member of the Federal Executive of the DNA ( Det norske Arbeiderparti ).

Skau his wife Iris was married since the early 1950s. His son Per Skau (* 1961 ) is also politician and served from 1993 to 1997 Member of the Storting. Skau was a supporter of the temperance movement. From 1991 to 1997 he headed the Norwegian section of the Good Templars (Organization of Good Templars ).

Skau died at the age of 84 years in a nursing home in Fredrikstad.