Rolf Fjeldvær was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 in 1965, and was re-elected on three occasions.

Fjeldvær was a member of the municipality councils in Sandstad

Sandstad

Sandstad is a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Hitra. The village of Sandstad lies on along the Trondheimsleia on the southeastern coast of the island of Hitra, about southwest of Hestvika. The north entrance to...

 1959–1963 and its successor municipality Hitra

Hitra

Hitra is a municipality and an island in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality covers the island of Hitra and several smaller islands, and is part of the Fosen region...

 1963–1967. He chaired the local party chapter from 1962 to 1966 and from 1990 to 1997.

Outside of politics, he worked as a school teacher from 1951 (until 1954 in Vardø

Vardø

is a town and a municipality in Finnmark county in the extreme northeast part of Norway.Vardø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . The law required that all cities should be separated from their rural districts, but because of a low population and very few voters, this was...

). In 1960 he was promoted to school inspector; from 1964 to 1988 he was the local school director.