Herman Johan Foss Reimers

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Herman Johan Foss Reimers, ca. 1920

Herman Johan Foss Reimers (15 September 1843 – 7 February 1928) was Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.[1]

Background[]

Reimers was born at Bergen in Hordaland, Norway. He was cand. jur. in 1867.

Career[]

He served in the Ministry of Finance during 1878. From April to June 1884 he was Councillor of State and Chief of the Norwegian Minister of Finance as a part of the short-lived Schweigaard's Ministerium in the cabinet of Prime Minister Christian Homann Schweigaard. .[2]From 1884 he was a Supreme Court Assessor.[3]

He was a member of Kristiania (now Oslo) city council from 1887 to 1892,[3] and he served the term 1889–1891 as a member of the Parliament of Norway, representing the constituency of Østerrisør.[2]

Personal life[]

His granddaughter Mimi Reimers married Olaf D. Thommessen.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Schweigaard/Løvenskiold Government 3 April 1884 - 26 June 1884". regjeringen. Retrieved June 20, 2016.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Herman Johan Foss Reimers" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Herman Johan Foss Reimers". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  4. ^ Thommessen, Henrik Peter (2009). "Forord". Fra triumf til tragedie. Avisbedriften Tidens Tegn 1910–1941. Acta Humaniora : A Series of Doctoral Theses That Have Been Presented to the Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo (in Norwegian). Oslo: University of Oslo (doctoral thesis). pp. i–iii. ISSN 0806-3222.
Political offices
Preceded by
Christian Homann Schweigaard
Norwegian Minister of Finance
April 1884–June 1884
Succeeded by
Baard Madsen Haugland


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