16 Facts About Jens Hundseid

Jens Valentinsen Hundseid was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party.

Jens Hundseid was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1924 to 1940 and the prime minister of Norway from 1932 to 1933.

Jens Hundseid was born at the farm Jens Hundseid in Vikedal which had belonged to his mother's family for generations.

Jens Hundseid became head of Telemark Agricultural School in 1918.

Jens Hundseid became a member of the Farmer's Party when it was formed in 1920.

Jens Hundseid candidated for the Norwegian Agrarian Association in the 1918 Norwegian parliamentary election and for the Farmer's Party in the 1921 election, both times without getting elected.

Jens Hundseid was elected to the Parliament of Norway for the Centre Party from Telemark in the 1924 parliamentary election.

Jens Hundseid was credited within the party for being a good administrator.

However, when Kolstad died the following year, Jens Hundseid was appointed prime minister in March 1932 and formed the Jens Hundseid's Cabinet, mostly with the same ministers as in the preceding Kolstad Cabinet.

Jens Hundseid didn't want Minister of Defence Vidkun Quisling to continue in the cabinet but Quisling argued hard to keep it and was supported by many other ministers.

Jens Hundseid was included in the cabinet, but had a difficult relationship to Hundseid from the start.

In summer 1932, diplomat Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg secretly gave authorization from Jens Hundseid to negotiate the Eastern Greenland dispute with Denmark.

The Jens Hundseid cabinet fell in March 1933 when the Labour Party and the Liberal Party both supported a motion of no-confidence over the cabinet's economic politics.

Jens Hundseid went back to his prior role as parliamentarian leader in the Parliament in addition to being the party's leader.

Jens Hundseid signed a somewhat moderated statement where he declared he would become a member of Nasjonal Samling and be writing newspaper contributions in favour of NS.

Jens Hundseid was released in 1949, having been imprisoned for four years.