Herman Johan Foss Reimers
Herman Johan Foss Reimers (15 September 1843 – 7 February 1928) was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.[1]
Background
[edit]Reimers was born at Bergen in Hordaland, Norway. He was cand. jur. in 1867.
Career
[edit]Reimers served in the Ministry of Finance in 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
[edit]His granddaughter, Mimi Reimers, married Olaf D. Thommessen.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Schweigaard/Løvenskiold Government 3 April 1884 - 26 June 1884". regjeringen. Retrieved June 20, 2016.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ a b "Herman Johan Foss Reimers" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Herman Johan Foss Reimers". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ Thommessen, Henrik Peter (2009). "Forord". Fra triumf til tragedie. Avisbedriften Tidens Tegn 1910–1941 (Thesis) (in Norwegian). Oslo: University of Oslo. pp. i–iii. ISSN 0806-3222.