Halvard Lange

Halvard Lange
Lange speaking in the Storting in 1949
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
25 September 1963 – 12 October 1965
Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen
Preceded by Erling Wikborg
Succeeded by John Lyng
In office
22 February 1946 – 28 August 1963
Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen
Oscar Torp
Preceded by Trygve Lie
Succeeded by Erling Wikborg
Personal details
Born (1902-09-16)16 September 1902
Kristiania, Norway
Died 19 May 1970(1970-05-19) (aged 67)
Oslo, Norway
Political party Labour Party
Children Even Lange
Halvard Lange, left, with Gaetano Martino and Lester B. Pearson, the "three wise men" of NATO, in 1956.

Halvard Manthey Lange (16 September 1902 – 19 May 1970) was a Norwegian politician and diplomat.

He became a member of the Norwegian Labour Party in 1927. Two years later, in 1929, he earned a Master of Arts degree. He worked as a teacher 1930-35 and lectured at the University of Oslo 1935-38.

He was arrested by the Nazi German occupying forces in 1942 and spent the rest of the war in various concentration camps.

He was the Norwegian foreign minister from 1946 till 1965, except for a month in 1963 during the administration of John Lyng.

Just before taking the job of foreign minister, he became a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1945; although he went on leave in 1946, when he took up the foreign minister's job, he remained officially on the committee until 1948. He was viewed as "right-wing" politician in the Norwegian Labour Party, partially because of his strong support for Western alignment.

Mr. Lange was, together with Lester B. Pearson and Gaetano Martino, one of the "three wise men" on the "Committee of Three" advising NATO on ways to strengthen its non-military cooperation. A result of this work was the formation of the NATO Science Programme in 1957.[1]

His father was Nobel Peace Prize winner Christian Lous Lange and his great-grandfather was the historian Christian C. A. Lange. His brother Carl Viggo also became a member of Parliament.

References

  1. ↑ "NATO Handbook 2001: Science Programme Activities". NATO. 2001-08-23. Retrieved 2006-08-26.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Trygve Lie		 Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
1946–1963		 Succeeded by
Erling Wikborg
Preceded by
Erling Wikborg		 Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
1963–1965		 Succeeded by
John Lyng
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