Dagfinn Vårvik

Dagfinn Vårvik
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
18 October 1972 – 16 October 1973
Prime MinisterLars Korvald
Preceded byAndreas Cappelen
Succeeded byKnut Frydenlund
Minister of Finance
In office
28 August 1963 – 25 September 1963
Prime MinisterJohn Lyng
Preceded byAndreas Cappelen
Succeeded byAndreas Cappelen
Minister of Pay and Prices
In office
12 October 1965 – 17 March 1971
Prime MinisterPer Borten
Preceded byIdar Norstrand
Succeeded byOlav Gjærevoll
Leader of the Centre Party
In office
1973–1977
Preceded byJohn Austrheim
Succeeded byGunnar Stålsett
Personal details
Born(1924-06-08)8 June 1924
Leinstrand Municipality, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
Died25 March 2018(2018-03-25) (aged 93)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyCentre
SpouseBjørg Presttrø

Dagfinn Vårvik (8 June 1924 – 25 March 2018)[1] was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was born in Leinstrand Municipality.

Vårvik graduated with a cand.oecon. degree in 1951. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the term 1961–1965. He worked in the newspaper Nationen from 1961 to 1991, as a journalist except for the period 1963 to 1988 when he was editor-in-chief.From August to September 1963 he was Minister of Finance during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng.[2]

He was later Minister of Wages and Prices from 1965 to 1971 during the cabinet Borten, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1973 during the cabinet Korvald. He was a deputy member of Oslo city council in 1971–1975 and served as the chairman of the Centre Party from 1973 to 1977.[2]

Vårvik died on 25 March 2018 at the age of 93.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Dagfinn Vårvik er død". NRK. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Dagfinn Vårvik" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  3. ^ "Dagfinn Vårvik er død". adressa.no. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2023.