List of County Governors of Sogn og Fjordane

This is a list of the County Governors (Fylkesmenn) of Sogn og Fjordane

Sogn og Fjordane

is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the town of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality while the largest town is Førde....

, 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...

(called Nordre Bergenhus amt
Bergenhus len
Bergenhus len was a Norwegian administrative division. The "len" was administered from Bergenhus Fortress in Bergen.Formerly the term len in Norway signified an administrative region roughly equivalent to today's counties. The historic len was an important administrative entity during the period...

before 1919).

Sogn og Fjordane County Governors
Start	End	Name	Born	Died
1763	1771	Joachim de Knagenhjelm	1727	1796
1771	1779	Magnus Theiste	1725	1791
1780	1781	Ditlev von Petz
1781	1788	Jonas R. Petersen
1788	1789	Nils Dorph Gunnerus	1751	1789
1789	1794	Peter Hersleb Harboe
1794	1802	Andreas Hiort
1802	1811	Niels Andreas Vibe Niels Andreas Vibe Niels Andreas Vibe was a Norwegian military officer and civil and royal servant.He was born in Rollag as a son of Major Johan Christian Vibe and Anne Cathrine Pihl . He was a brother of Johan Vibe and Ditlev Wibe. In October 1795 in Christianssand he married Margery Kierulf...	1759	1814
1811	1814	Herman Gerhard Treschow	1780	1836
1814	1822	Christian Magnus Falsen Christian Magnus Falsen Christian Magnus Falsen was a Norwegian constitutional father, statesman, jurist, and historian. He was an important member of the constitutional assembly and was one of the writers of the constitutional laws....	1782	1830
1822	1831	Edvard Hagerup Edvard Hagerup Edvard Hagerup was a Norwegian solicitor and politician. He was born in Kristiansand, the son of a bishop Eiler Hagerup b. 1718 and Edvardine Magdalene Margarethe Christie ....	1781	1853
1831	1832	Fredrik Riis Fredrik Riis Fredrik Riis was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Christiania, enrolled as a student in 1806 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1809...	1789	1845
1833	1844	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
1844	1852	Hans Tostrup Hans Tostrup Hans Tostrup was a Norwegian politician.He hailed from Hjelmeland, and was the son of infantry captain Nicolay Tostrup and a brother of goldsmith Jacob Tostrup. Another brother Christoffer co-owned the company Tostrup & Mathiesen...	1799	1856
1852	1860	Michael Aubert	1811	1872
1861	1869	Johan Collett Falsen Johan Collett Falsen Johan Collett Falsen was a Norwegian jurist and politician.He graduated as cand.jur. in 1841. He worked as an attorney in Nedenes from 1846, and then in Trondhjem. In 1849 he moved to Drammen to work as an attorney there. He became involved in politics, serving as mayor of Drammen from 1853 to...	1817	1879
1870	1875	Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder was a Norwegian jurist and politician.A jurist by education, he worked as a civil servant in various government ministries, and as a fut in Hallingdal....	1817	1884
1875	1889	Carl Lauritz Mechelborg Oppen Carl Lauritz Mechelborg Oppen Carl Lauritz Mechelborg Oppen was a Norwegian jurist and politician.A jurist by education, he worked as a civil servant in various government ministries. In 1875 he became County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane, a post he held until 1889 when he became County Governor of Rogaland...	1830	1914
1889	1902	Olaj Olsen	1851	1920
1902	1910	John Utheim John Utheim John Utheim was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.He graduated with a cand.theol. degree in 1874. He worked as a teacher, from 1878 at the Norwegian Naval Academy in Horten. He became an associate professor there in 1890....	1847	1910
1910	1930	Ingolf E. Christensen	1872	1943
1930	1941	Hans Kristian Seip Hans Kristian Seip Hans Kristian Seip was a Norwegian road engineer and politician for the Liberal Party. He spent most of his professional career in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. As a politician he was Mayor of Bergen and County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane, and served two terms in the Norwegian...	1881	1945
1941	1944	Vidar Atne	1909	1961
1944	1945	Konrad Sundlo Konrad Sundlo Konrad Sundlo was a Norwegian officer and politician in Nasjonal Samling before and during Second World War...	1881	1965
1945	1971	Nikolai Schei Nikolai Schei Nikolai Andreas Schei was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He was born in Førde as the son of Per Schei and Johanne Schei . He was a brother of Andreas Schei, and through him an uncle of Chief Justice Tore Schei.He took his examen artium in 1925, and took the cand.jur. degree in 1928...	1901	1985
1971	1976	Arne Ekeberg	1925	–
1976	1994	Ingvald Johan Ulveseth Ingvald Johan Ulveseth Ingvald Johan Ulveseth is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.In 1964, during the third cabinet Gerhardsen, he was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Labour. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1965, and was re-elected on one occasion...	1924	2008
1994	–	Oddvar Flæte Oddvar Flæte Oddvar Johannes Flæte is a Norwegian county governor.He was born in Leikanger and grew up in Årdal, and graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration with a siviløkonom degree in 1971...	1944	–

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