List of County Governors of Finnmark
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This is a list of the County Governors of Finnmark county in Norway. The office of County Governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway. The title was Amtmann (before 1919) and then Fylkesmann (after 1919).
In 1576, the King of Norway established Vardøhus len as a new administrative unit for the northern part of the kingdom. In 1661, it became Vardøhus amt and the King began appointing a county governor. In 1787, the island of Senja and the Troms area were transferred from Nordlandenes amt to Vardøhus amt and the new, larger county was renamed Finmarkens amt. In 1866, the island of Senja and the Troms area were separated from Vardøhus to form the new Tromsø amt. In 1919, the name was again changed to Finnmark fylke. In 2002, the Sami language name, Finnmárku, was added as a co-official name for the county.
The county governor is the government's representative in the county. The governor carries out the resolutions and guidelines of the Storting and Government. This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries. Secondly, the county governor also monitors the activities of the municipalities and is the appeal body for many types of municipal decisions.
Names
The name of the county (Vardøhus, Finmarken, Finnmark) and the word for county (amt, fylke) have changed over the centuries. From 1661 until 1787 the title was Amtmann i Vardøhus amt. From 1787 until 1918, it was Amtmann i Finmarkens amt. Since 1918, the title has been Fylkesmann i Finnmark fylke.
List of County Governors
Finnmark county has had the following governors:
| County Governors of Finnmark[1][2][3] | ||||
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| Number | Start | End | Name | |
| 1 | 1661 | 1666 | Christoffer Orning (1617–1676) | |
| 2 | 1666 | 1667 | Frederik Schort (1614–1674) |  |
| 3 | 1668 | 1680 | Otte Hansen Bjelke | |
| (acting) | 1680 | 1682 | The County Governor of Nordlandenes amt, Knud Gjedde, supervised this county | |
| (acting) | 1682 | 1684 | The magistrates (city council) of Bergen supervised this county | |
| 4 | 1684 | 1701 | Hans Hansen Lilienskiold (c. 1650–1703) | |
| 5 | 1701 | 1717 | Erik Matssøn Lorch (1647–1717) | |
| 6 | 1717 | 1718 | Jacob Møinichen (1680–1718) | |
| 7 | 1718 | 1720 | Nikolai Friese (16??–1721) | |
| 8 | 1720 | 1729 | Peter Siedelmann (16??–1729) | |
| 9 | 1730 | 1738 | Henning Friman (1678–1738) | |
| 10 | 1739 | 1750 | Rasmus Kjeldsøn (1701–1753) | |
| 11 | 1750 | 1750 | Peter Schnitler[4] (1690–1751) | |
| 12 | 1750 | 1757 | Mathias Collett (1708–1759) | |
| 13 | 1757 | 1768 | Gunder Gundersen Hammer (1725–1772) | |
| 14 | 1768 | 1771 | Eiler Hagerup (1736–1795) |  |
| 15 | 1771 | 1778 | Thorkild Fjeldsted (1740–1796) | |
| 16 | 1778 | 1787 | Christen Heiberg (1737–1801) | |
| 17 | 1787 | 1800 | Ole Hannibal Sommerfeldt (1753–1821) | |
| 18 | 1800 | 1806 | Martin Andreas Unmack (1754–1806) | |
| 19 | 1806 | 1811 | Hilmar Meincke Krohg (1776–1851) | _(16759529159).jpg) |
| 20 | 1811 | 1814 | Fredrik Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg (1787–1863) |  |
| 21 | 1814 | 1828 | Johan Caspar Krogh (1776–1831) | |
| 22 | 1828 | 1829 | Christian Ulrik Kastrup (1784–1850) | |
| 23 | 1829 | 1833 | Ulrik Frederik Cappelen (1797–1864) | |
| 24 | 1833 | 1843 | Ole Edvard Buck (1799–1843) | |
| (acting for Buck, then Harris) | Aug 1839 | Mar 1845 | Mons Lie (1803–1881) | |
| 25 | 1844 | 1853 | Anton Theodor Harris (1804–1866) | |
| 26 | 1854 | 1857 | Carl Frederik Motzfeldt (1808–1902) | _(17377226222).jpg){kind=small} |
| 27 | 1858 | 1866 | Mathias Bonsach Krogh Nannestad (1815–1878) | |
| 28 | 1866 | 1874 | Jens Holmboe (1821–1891) |  |
| 29 | 1874 | 1882 | Johan Blackstad (1832–1904) | |
| 30 | 1882 | 1885 | Carl Ingwart Theodor Rynning (1837–1892) | |
| 31 | 1886 | 1889 | Karl Adolf Langberg (1850–1889) | |
| 32 | 1889 | 1894 | Nikolai Christian Grove Prebensen (1850–1938) |  |
| 33 | 1896 | 1906 | Truls Johannessen Wiel Graff (1851–1918) | |
| 34 | 1906 | 1912 | Andreas Tostrup Urbye (1869–1955) |  |
| 35 | 1912 | 1921 | Johan Albrigt Rivertz (1874–1942) | |
| 36 | 1922 | 1928 | Hagbarth Lund (1877–1963) | |
| 37 | 1928 | 1948 | Hans Gabrielsen (imprisoned by WWII Occupied government 1941–1945) (1891–1965) | |
| (WWII Occupied government) | 1941 | 1944 | Thor Bekeng (1905–19??) | |
| (acting for Gabrielson) | Nov 1944 | Sep 1945 | Peder Holt (1899–1963) | .jpg) |
| (acting for Gabrielson) | Sep 1945 | Nov 1945 | Erling Johannes Norvik[5][6] (1899–1964) | |
| 38 | 1948 | 1963 | Peder Holt (1899–1963) | |
| (acting for Holt) | 1951 | 1955 | Dag Tønder (1907–1989) | |
| 39 | 1963 | 1974 | Kolbjørn Varmann (1904–1980) | |
| (acting for Varmann) | Mar 1963 | July 1965 | Anders John Aune (1923–2011) | |
| 40 | 1974 | 1989 | Anders John Aune (1923–2011) | |
| (acting) | Jan 1990 | May 1990 | Kurt Mosbakk (born 1934) | |
| 41 | Mar 1990 | Mar 1998 | Svein Alsaker (born 1940) |  |
| (acting for Alsaker) | Aug 1990 | July 1993 | Ingrid Røstad Fløtten (born 1954) | |
| 42 | 1998 | 2016 | Gunnar Kjønnøy (born 1947) | |
| 43 | 2016 | Ingvild Aleksandersen (born 1968) |  | |
References
- ↑ Cahoon, Ben (2000). "Norwegian Counties". Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ↑ "Stiftamtmenn, amtmenn og fylkesmenn 1814-1994" (in Norwegian). regjeringen.no. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ↑ Berg, Ole T., ed. (2016-06-13). "Fylkesmenn og amtmenn (stiftamtmenn) siden 1671". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ↑ Tretvik, Aud, ed. (2009-02-13). "Peter Schnitler". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ↑ "Finnmark fylkesmannsembete". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 15 September 1945. p. 12.
- ↑ Bottolfsen, Øystein (1990). Finnmark fylkeskommunes historie 1840-1990 (in Norwegian). Vadsø: Finnlands fylkeskommune. p. 360. ISBN 9788299138055.