Jan P. Syse

January Peder Syse ( born November 25, 1930 in Nøtterøy, † September 17, 1997 in Oslo) was a Norwegian conservative politician of the party Høyre.

Biography

January Peder Syse studied law until 1957. He was a member of the Conservative Students League, which he chaired in 1952. He worked after his studies until 1967 as a department manager at the shipping company Wilh. Wilhelmsen. After that, he was deputy head of department at the Ministry of Trade and Shipping. In 1970 he became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice. From 1971 he was back at the shipping company Wilh. Wilhelmsen, now as Deputy Director and Legal Counsel, busy. From 1973 onwards Syse Member of Parliament in the Storting from 1983 to 1985 he was Minister of Industry and then Group Chairman of his party.

After negotiations after the parliamentary elections on 11 September 1989 Syse Prime Minister of a minority government that broke on 29 October 1990.

Party

Syse was chairman of the youth organization of the Conservative Party from 1957 to 1963 and sat on the Central Committee of the mother party. In 1988 he was leader of the Conservative Party. On January 16, 1991, he resigned from this office because the Conservatives had lost heavily in surveys and many members had left. In addition, he was accused of lack of success during his time as Prime Minister.