Gudmund Harlem
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Gudmund Harlem | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Defence | |
| In office 25 September 1963 – 12 October 1965 | |
| Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Preceded by | Håkon Kyllingmark |
| Succeeded by | Otto G. Tidemand |
| In office 18 February 1961 – 28 August 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Preceded by | Nils Handal |
| Succeeded by | Håkon Kyllingmark |
| Minister of Social Affairs | |
| In office 1 August 1955 – 18 February 1961 | |
| Prime Minister | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Preceded by | Rakel Seweriin |
| Succeeded by | Olav Bruvik |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 July 1917 Oslo, Norway |
| Died | 22 March 1988 (aged 70) Oslo, Norway |
| Party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Inga Margareta Elisabet Brynolf
(m. 1938) |
| Children | Gro, Erik, Lars and Hanne[1] |
| Parent(s) | Gudmund Harlem (1885-1918), Olga Haug (1887-1942)[2] |
Gudmund Harlem (24 July 1917 – 22 March 1988) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Labour Party. He was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs from 1955 to 1961 and Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1961 to 1965 (except for a short break from August to September 1963). As a physician he spent most of his career at Statens Attføringsinstitutt, serving as director from 1970 to 1977. He was then a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and director of NTNF. He was the father of former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former Norwegian Minister of Justice Hanne Harlem.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of Gudmund Harlem, Sr. (1885–1918) and Olga Haug (1887–1942). He finished his secondary education in 1935, enrolled as a student at the University of Oslo in the same year, and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1946. He fled the country for Sweden in 1943 because of the German occupation, and stayed there until the end of World War II.[3] In the autumn of 1945 he was the leader of the Norwegian Students' Society. He was hired as a physician at Statens Attføringsinstitutt in 1946, and was promoted to chief physician in 1953.[4]
He also became involved in politics. He was a member of the revolutionary group Mot Dag from 1934 to its disestablishment in 1936, and then joined the Norwegian Labour Party[3] and sat on the Oslo city council from 1945 to 1947, and of the school district board from 1948 to 1955. He was also a member of the central committee of the Workers' Youth League from 1946 to 1949, and of the International Union of Socialist Youth board from 1946 to 1951. From 1949 to 1957 he was a deputy member of the Labour Party's central committee; he was deputy chairman of the Oslo branch from 1952 to 1957.[4]
