Georg Prahl Harbitz

Georg Harbitz, in the parish register Jørgen Prahl Harbitz, ( born June 26, 1802 in House ( today Osterøy ); † November 22, 1889 in Abbediengen in Aker ) was a Norwegian priest and President of the Storting.

His parents were the innkeeper Niels Harbitz (1742-1810) and his wife Elisabeth Christine Ibsen. On February 23, he married Maren Mariken yard (2 February 1806-20. December 1839 ), daughter of the peasant farm Ingebret Larsen and his wife Ingeborg Martine Torgersdatter Blinderen. After her death he remained a widower.

Youth

Harbitz grew up in a house on Osterøy in a tavern. At age 11 he came to the school in Bergen. This he could do with the financial support of the Prahl family quit, which is why he accepted Prahl as a middle name. He was supposed to be a businessman, but the vice-principal of the junior high school was that he was more suitable for theoretical exercises, and made for a change in the cathedral school. In 1821 he came to the University.

Career

Ecclesiastical career

In 1825 he passed his theological examination. A year later, he was pastor in Askvoll, because there was a lack am'n clergy. 13 years later he was pastor from 1839-1847 of Slidre in Oppland. He was also appointed at this time to garrison pastor of Akershus, but took over the office not because its Stortingstätigkeit met with the strictly conservative community resistance. From 1848 he was pastor of the separated Vestre Slidre until 1852 he was the parish Nøtterøy. In 1878 he was retired.

Political career

Harbitz sat in all 15 Stortingsperioden from 1836 to 1869. Until 1839 he was a delegate for Nordre Bergenhus Office, from 1842 to 1851 for Kristian's Office and from 1854 to 1869 for Jarlsberg and Larvigs office. From 1848-1869 he was President of the Storting. He changed thereby from only with Halvor Christensen, then with Hans Aall.

Policy

Harbitz the farmer was standing opposition among Ole Gabriel Ueland very close. He stood up for the Local Government and had a clear national attitude. In the Norwegian-Swedish flag dispute he protested against the figure of the Norwegian national coat of arms on Swedish coins. But over time the will was to compensate and compromise more and more the characteristics of his policy. He also became gradually more conservative. He voted against the approval of the Councils of State to the Stortingsversammlungen. He was also against the annual convocation of the Storting and against the extension of voting rights. Together with other moderate officials and academics, he kept trying to build bridges between the government and the opposition Stortingsmehrheit. Despite his increasingly conservative attitude he could through the reputation which he enjoyed even when the farmer opposition, keep the good relations with the leaders of the peasant opposition, particularly to Ueland. If he succeeded repeatedly to dissuade the peasant opposition from its rigorous austerity, this is due more to their personal contacts than on his speeches in the Storting. As pressure from the Sweden Charles IV vetoed the Stortingsbeschluss to lift the Swedish governorship in Norway lodged, he was Chairman of the Special Committee subsequently used. He succeeded to find a way out of this crisis, in which both sides could save face.

When Sweden wanted to revise the Act of Union and Norway sought closer ties, he brought along with Johan Sverdrup a draft, who insisted on absolute independence and equality in all things that were not affairs of the Union. Together with Ueland he refused to participate initially in the new Union Committee. But you could then change his mind but both. But he went straight back out of the Commission.

End of life

After his retirement as pastor Harbritz moved to his second son Gottfried after Abbediengen, where he died in 1889. After his request, he was buried alongside his wife in the cemetery at Askvoll.

Honors

Harbitz was appointed in 1851 to the Knights of St. Olav Order, received the Commander's Cross in 1857 and 1864 the Grand Cross. In the same year he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the North Star. 1891 was named after him in Oslo, the "President Harbitz 'gate '.