Jørgen Løvland

Jørgen Gunnarson Løvland ( born February 3, 1848 in Evje; † August 21, 1922 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian liberal politician of the Venstre.

Løvland came from a farming family. Both maternal ancestors as paternal were represented in Parliament. His training as a teacher ended in 1865, Holt. Nearly 20 years he worked in the teaching profession, first as a teacher in primary school in Kristiansand 1866 to 1878, then as Chairman of the State school authorities in Setesdalen 1878-1884. He was editor of the newspaper Christian Sands Stiftsavis 1884-1892 out of this. Position was he voted for the Venstre for the period 1886-88 in the Norwegian Parliament, as well as in the periods 1892-98 and 1913-15.

Løvland was president of the Odeltings 1892-1898. Between 1898 and 1903 he was Minister of Labour. In addition, he was from 1905 to 1907 the first Norwegian Foreign Minister after the dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian Prime Minister from October 28 1907 to 18 March 1908. From 1897 onwards he was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and was its chairman from 1901 to 1922. From 1913 to 1915 he was President of the Norwegian Parliament. He was head of the Norwegian cadastral Commission and, from 1910, its treasurer in Christiania. His political career, he finished as churches and Minister of Education in 1915 to 1920.

Løvlands undertook in the 1890s, important efforts for the Norwegian transport policy. He joined revolutionary tasks regarding the future of transport and communication means to ( railroad, telephone and telegraph ), an important potential for binding of the country culturally, economically and socially. As Chairman of the Transport Committee in Parliament, he made sure that the railroad in the 1890s came to a standstill in the 1880s again. In 1894 he was responsible for det store jernbanekompromisset, he coordinated the railway construction and paved the way for the railway network in Norway in its present form. Løvland was of the opinion that the construction and operation of the infrastructure of the state is responsible, both from a geographical and social justice as military reasons. Using this principle, he led the Labor Department in several governments 1898-1903.