List of County Governors of Finnmark
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This is a list of the County Governors (Fylkesmenn) of Finnmark
Finnmark
or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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County Governors of Finnmark
StartEndNameBornDied
1684 1701 Hans Hansen Lilienskiold 1650 1703
1701 1717 Erik Lorch
1717 1718 Jacob Møinichen
1718 1720 Nikolai Friese
1720 1729 Peter Siedelmann
1730 1738 Henning Friman
1739 1750 Rasmus Kjeldsøn
1751 1757 Mathias Collett 1708 1759
1757 1768 Gunder Gundersen Hammer 1725 1772
1768 1771 Eiler Hagerup 1736 1795
1771 1778 Torkil Fieldsted
1778 1787 Christen Heiberg 1737 1801
1787 1800 Ole Hannibal Sommerfeldt 1753 1821
1800 1806 Martin Andreas Unmack
1806 1811 Hilmar Meincke Krogh 1776 1851
1811 1814 Frederik Wilhelm Wedel Jarlsberg 1787 1863
1814 1828 Johan Caspar Krogh 1776 1831
1828 1829 Christian Ulrik Kastrup
Christian Ulrik Kastrup
Christian Ulrik Kastrup was a Norwegian jurist, military officer and politician.A jurist by education, from Stavanger, he worked as a military officer until 1811, when he became chief of customs in Vardø. In 1817 he became fut in the district Nordhordland og Voss. He was elected to the Norwegian...

1784 1850
1829 1833 Ulrik Fredrik Cappelen 1797 1864
1833 1843 Ole Edvard Buck
Ole Edvard Buck
Ole Edvard Buck was a Norwegian politician.He was appointed County Governor of Finmarkens Amt in 1833. In 1838 he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1838, representing his county...

1799 1843
1839 1845 Mons Lie
Mons Lie
Mons Lie was a Norwegian police chief and writer.He was born in Ålen as a son of Jonas Monsen Storli and Karen Svendsdotter Aspaas . His mother was a first cousin of Svend Aspaas. In February 1777 he married Dorothea Wollan, but the marriage did not last. From October 1793 he was married to...

 (acting for Buck, then for Harris)
1844 1853 Anton Theodor Harris
Anton Theodor Harris
Anton Theodor Harris was a Norwegian politician.He was appointed County Governor of Finmarkens Amt in 1844. In 1838 he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1848, representing the city Tromsø, where the County Governor was seated. He was re-elected in 1851...

1804 1866
1854 1857 Carl Frederik Motzfeldt
Carl Frederik Motzfeldt
Carl Frederik Motzfeldt was a Norwegian politician.The son of General Major Carl M. Motzfeldt, he enrolled as a student in 1827 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1838. He was editor-in-chief of Den Constitutionelle from 1841 to 1842...

1808 1902
1858 1866 Mathias Bonsach Krogh Nannestad 1815 1878
1866 1874 Jens Holmboe
Jens Holmboe
Jens Holmboe was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. A jurist by education, he was a member of the Norwegian Parliament for five terms, and held several different government posts from 1874 to 1884.-Personal life:...

1821 1891
1874 1882 Johan Blackstad
Johan Blackstad
Johan Blackstad was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Bergen and took the cand.jur. degree in 1857. He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1860, and in 1870 he went on to become district stipendiary magistrate in Varanger...

1832 1904
1882 1885 Carl Ingwart Theodor Rynning 1837 1892
1886 1889 Karl Adolf Langberg 1850 1889
1889 1894 Nikolai Christian Grove Prebensen 1850 1938
1896 1906 Truls Johannessen Wiel Graff
Truls Johannessen Wiel Graff
Truls Johannessen Wiel Graff was a Norwegian county governor.He was the youngest living son of captain Christian Fredrik Graff and Cathrine Magdalene Bull Wiel. In 1882 he married Benta Tomine Marie Cathrine Baastad...

1851 1918
1906 1912 Andreas Tostrup Urbye
Andreas Tostrup Urbye
Andreas Tostrup Urbye was the Norwegian Minister of Labour 1913-1916 and 1916-1917....

1869 1955
1912 1921 Johan Albrigt Rivertz 1874 1942
1922 1928 Hagbarth Lund 1877 1963
1928 1941 Hans Gabrielsen 1891 1965
1941 1945 occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and ended on May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. Throughout this period, Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht...

1944 1945 Peder Holt (acting for Gabrielsen) 1899 1963
1945 1945 Erling Johannes Norvik
Erling Johannes Norvik
Erling Johannes Norvik was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Trondenes....

 (acting for Gabrielsen)
1899 1964
1945 1948 Hans Gabrielsen 1891 1965
1948 1963 Peder Holt 1899 1963
1951 1955 Dag Tønder (acting for Holt)
1963 1974 Kolbjørn Varmann 1904 1980
1963 1965 Anders Aune (acting for Varmann) 1923
1974 1989 Anders Aune
1990 1990 Kurt Mosbakk
Kurt Mosbakk
Kurt Mosbakk Kurt Mosbakk Kurt Mosbakk (born 21 November 1934 is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1986 to 1987, when the ministry was closed; he continued as Minister of Trade until 1989....

 (January - May)
1934
1990 1998 Svein Alsaker
Svein Alsaker
Svein Alsaker is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1985, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1977–1981 and 1981–1985...

1940
1990 1993 Ingrid Røstad Fløtten (acting for Alsaker)
1998 Gunnar Kjønnøy 1947
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