List of County Governors of Trøndelag

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This is a list of the County Governors of Trøndelag 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).

The diocesan county called Trondhjems stiftamt was established by the King in 1662, shortly after the area was re-conquered by the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, taking it back from the Kingdom of Sweden. The seat of the stiftamt was in the city of Trondheim. In 1687, a new subordinate county called Trondhjems amt was created as one of several counties within the diocese. On 24 September 1804, the county was divided by royal resolution into two counties. The county of Nordre Trondhjems amt (renamed Nord-Trøndelag in 1919) was in the north and the county of Søndre Trondhjems amt (renamed Sør-Trøndelag in 1919) was in the south. These two counties existed until 1 January 2018 when the two counties were merged once again into the new Trøndelag county. The new county governor for Trøndelag lives and works in the town of Steinkjer, but also has offices in Trondheim.

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.

List of County Governors[]

From 1687 until 1804, the Trondhjems amt county had the following governors. From 1804 to 2017, the county was split and so each of those counties had their own county governor (see the lists for those counties). Since 2018, the counties were reunited with one county governor once again.[1][2][3]

County Governors of Trondhjems amt:
Start End Name
1687 1700 (1640–1700)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1700 1722 (1657–1722)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1723 1726 (1665–1736)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1726 1735 Jacob Benzon (1688–1775)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.		 Jacob Benzon statholder.jpg
1736 1744 (1691–1756)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1744 1747 (1715–1750)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.		 Christian Stockfleth (1715 - 1750) (2836517483).jpg
1747 1766 (1727–1780)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1766 1772 (1732–1773)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1772 1772 Georg Christian Oeder (1728–1791)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.		 Georg Christian Oeder.jpg
1772 1783 (1708–1800)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1783 1786 (1723–1788)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1786 1796 Thorkild Fjeldsted (1741–1796)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1796 1802 Gebhard Moltke, Greve of Moltke (1764–1851)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


1802 1804 Frederik Adeler (1764–1816)
Served concurrently as Stiftamtmann for Trondhjems stiftamt.


Office abolished on 24 September 1804. See
*List of County Governors of Nord-Trøndelag
*List of County Governors of Sør-Trøndelag
Office re-established on 1 January 2018.
County Governors of Trøndelag fylke:
2018 present Frank Jenssen (born 1969) Frank Jenssen (2017-03-11 bilde02).jpg

References[]

  1. ^ Cahoon, Ben (2000). "Norwegian Counties". Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. ^ "Stiftamtmenn, amtmenn og fylkesmenn 1814-1994" (in Norwegian). regjeringen.no. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. ^ Berg, Ole T., ed. (2016-06-13). "Fylkesmenn og amtmenn (stiftamtmenn) siden 1671". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
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