Norwegian Counties
Note: From 1662, a county was known as an amt
and, from 1 Jan 1919, as a fylke. Accordingly
the title of a governor was amtmann, then fylkesmann
(plural fylkesmenn); on 1 Jan 2021 this
was changed to state administrator, statsforvalter
(plural statsforvalterne). Before 1919
there were also units called stift
(diocese)(coextensive with bishoprics), grouping
multiple counties, whose governor was a stiftamtmann
(diocesan governor)(plural stiftamtmenn).
On 1 Jan 2020, the number of counties was
reduced from 19 to 11. The Storting voted to
partly undo the reform with Norway to have 15
counties from 1 Jan 2024. Three of the newly
merged counties (Vestfold og Telemark, Viken, and
Troms og Finnmark) were dissolved and the old
counties existing before the reform
re-established.
Agder
Adopted 1 Jan 2020
|
1 Jan
2020
Adger fylke (formed by merger of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder).
Governors
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2021 Stein Arve
Ytterdahl
(b. 1951)
1 Jan 2022
-
Gina Elisabeth Lund
(f)
(b. 1962)
Akershus
11 Dec 1987 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1682
Aggershuus amt
1877
Renamed Akershus amt.
1 Jan
1919
Akershus amt becomes Akershus fylke.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Viken fylke.
1 Jan
2024
Akershus fylke (restored).
Governors
9 May 1682 – 26 Sep 1694 Just Justssøn
Høeg
(b. 1640 - d. 1694)
1 Jan 1695 – 7 Oct 1699 Christian
Stockfleth
(b. 1639 - d. 1704)
25 Aug 1699 – 21 Jun 1708 Frederik Gabel
(b. 1640 - d. 1708)
29 Oct 1708 – 20 Feb 1710 Johan Vibe
(b. 1637 - d. 1710)
11 Aug 1710 – 12 Sep 1731 Wilhelm de Tonsberg
(b. 1680 - d. 1731)
6 Oct 1731 – Mar 1734 Lorentz de
Reichwein
(b. 1680 - d. 1735)
Mar 1734 - Nov 1735 Peter
Vogt (acting)
14 Nov 1735 – 6 Sep 1737 Jacob Benzon (1st
time) (b. 1688
- d. 1775)
15 Nov 1737 – Jan 1740 Peter Neve
(b. 1684 - d. 1740)
28 Apr 1740 – 11 Sep 1750 Frederik Otto von Rappe
(b. 1679 - d.
1758)
11 Sep 1750 – 10 Jun 1763 Jacob Benzon (2nd time)
(s.a.)
10 Jun 1763 – 1772
Caspar Herman von Storm
(b. 1718 - d. 1777)
30 Jul 1772 – 15 Apr 1773 Diderik Otto von Grambow
(b. 1732 - d. 1773)
16 Sep 1773 - 3 Jan 1774 Gustav Frederik
Holck-Winterfeldt (b. 1733 - d. 1776)
16 Jun 1774 – 16 Jun 1784 Albrecht Philip von
Levetzau (b. 1744 - d. 1817)
16 Jun 1784 – 7 May 1788 Jørgen Erik Skeel
(b. 1737 - d. 1795)
23 Dec 1789 – 25 Sep 1795 Frederik Moltke
(b. 1754 - d. 1836)
25 Sep 1795 – 5 Mar 1802 Frederik Julius
Kaas (1st time) (b. 1758 - d. 1827)
31 Mar 1802 – 11 Apr 1809 Gebhard Moltke
(b. 1764 - d. 1851)
11 Apr 1809 – 10 Jan 1810 Frederik Julius Kaas
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
25 Apr 1810 – 24 Feb 1813 Eggert
Christopher Knuth (b.
1786 - d. 1813)
31 Mar 1813 - 6 Jan 1815 Poul
Christian Holst (acting)
(b. 1776 - d. 1863)
1815 - 1822
Hans Hagerup
Falbe
(b. 1772 - d. 1830)
1822 - 1830
Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern (b. 1779
- d. 1853)
1831 -
1837
Niels Arntzen
Sem
(b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1837 -
1839
Hans Christian
Petersen
(b. 1793 - d. 1862)
1840 - 1842
Fredrik
Riis
(b. 1789 - d. 1845)
1842 -
1855
Erik Røring
Møinichen
(b. 1797 - d. 1875)
1855 -
1858
Christian
Birch-Reichenwald
(b. 1814 - d. 1891)
1859 -
1895
Johan Christian
Collett
(b. 1817 - d. 1895)
1895 -
1918
Ole Andreas
Furu
(b. 1841 - d. 1925)
1919 -
1930
Hroar
Olsen
(b. 1859 - d. 1941)
1930 - 15 Jul 1941
Ingolf Elseter
Christensen (b.
1872 - d. 1943)
(under
occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
1941 - 14 Feb 1942 Eivind
Stenersen Blehr (acting) (b. 1881 - d.
1957)
(Quisling
governor)
Apr 1942 - 18 Apr 1943 Edvard C.
Stenersen (acting) (b. 1891 -
d. 1967)
(Quisling
governor)
1943 - 30 Jun 1944
Konrad Sundlo
(b. 1881 - d. 1965)
(Quisling
governor)
1 Jul 1944 -
1945 Ole
Eberhard
Rømcke
(b. 1899 - d. 1968)
(Quisling governor)
1945 -
1955
Carl
Platou
(b. 1885 - d. 1956)
1955 -
1963
Trygve
Lie
(b. 1896 - d. 1968)
1964 -
1965
John
Lyng
(b. 1905 - d. 1978)
1965 -
1979
Petter Mørch
Koren
(b. 1910 - d. 2004)
1979 - 1988
Gunnar Alf
Larsen
(b. 1919 - d. 2003)
1988 - 1989
Geir Engebretsen (acting)
(b. 1952)
1989 -
1998
Kåre Isaachsen
Willoch
(b. 1928 - d. 2021)
1998 -
2001
Karin Moe Røisland (f) (acting) (b.
1944)
2001
Arne Bardalen
(acting)
(b. 1953)
1 Nov 2001 - 2011
Hans Johan
Røsjorde
(b. 1941)
2011 - 31 Dec 2019 Valgerd
Svarstad Haugland (f) (b.
1956)
(1st
time)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 part of Viken
1 Jan 2024 -
Valgerd Svarstad Haugland
(f) (s.a.)
(2nd time)
Kristiania stift
(Akershus amt, Buskeruds amt,
Jarlsberg og Larvik amt, Kristiania amt,
Smaalenenes amt;
and until 1864, also Hedemarkens amt and
Kristians amt)
1664
Aggershuus stift.
1843
Aggershuus (Akershus) stift
renamed Christiania stift.
1877
Spelling changed to
Kristiania.
1 Jan
1919
Abolished.
Governors (stiftamtmenn)
1664 – 1679
Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve
(b. 1638 - d. 1704)
1679 – 1681
Erik Ottesen Banner
(b. 1618 - d.
1687)
9 May 1682 - 11 Sep 1750 the governors
of Aggershuus amt
(s.a.)
11 Sep 1750 - 10 Jun 1763 Jacob Benzon
(b. 1688 - d. 1775)
10 Jun 1763 - 10 Jan 1810 the governors
of Aggershuus amt
(s.a.)
10 Jan 1810 - 20 Nov 1812 Marcus Gjøe
Rosenkrantz
(b. 1762 - d. 1838)
20 Nov 1812 - 1 Feb 1814 Emanuel Nicolai de
Thygeson (b.
1772 - d. 1860)
1814 -
1815
Poul Christian Holst
(acting) (b. 1776 - d.
1863)
1815 - 1842
the governors of Aggershuus amt
(s.a.)
1840 - 1845
Fredrik
Riis
(b. 1789 - d. 1845)
1846 - 1857
Niels Arntzen
Sem
(b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1857 -
1874
Karelius August
Arntzen
(b. 1802 - d. 1875)
1874 -
1880
August Christian
Manthey
(b. 1811 - d. 1880)
1880 - 1905
Niels
Rye
(b. 1824 - d. 1905)
1905 - 1917
Otto Albert
Blehr
(b. 1847 - d. 1927)
1917 - 31 Dec
1918
Andreas Tostrup Urbye (acting)
(b. 1869 - d. 1955)
Gudbrandsdalen og Hedemarkens
1687
Gudbrandsdalen og Hedemarkens amt
(split from
Aggershuus stift.
1694
Re-incorporated into Aggershuus
(Akershus) stift.
Governors
26 Feb 1687 - 14 Oct 1692 Ove
Lange
(b. 1648 - d. 1692)
14 Oct 1692 - 1694 Vacant
Kristiansand stift: see
under Oslo
Aust-Agder
12 Dec 1958 - 31 Dec
2019
|
1669
Agdesiden amt.
1671
Nedenes amt.
1 Jan
1919
Nedenes amt becomes Aust-Agder fylke.
1 Jan
2020
Merged into Agder fylke.
Governors
1669 – 1679
the governors of Kristiansand
(Agdesiden) stift
1680 – 1 Oct 1681 Jens
Toller Rosenheim
(b. 1636 - d. 1690)
29 Oct 1681 – 1690
Jørgen Müller
(b. 1648 - d. 1690)
1691 – 1815
the governors of Kristiansan
(Agdesiden)
stift
1812 - 1815
Oluf Borch de
Schouboe
(b. 1777 - d. 1844)
16 Mar 1815 -
1837
Ulrik Frederik Anton de Schouboe (b. 1782 -
d. 1863)
1837 -
1848
Henrik
Harboe
(b. 1785 - d. 1848)
1849 -
1860
Iver Steen
Thomle
(b. 1812 - d. 1889)
1860 -
1863
Henrik Laurentius
Helliesen (b.
1824 - d. 1900)
1863 -
1868
Niels Wisløff
Rogstad
(b. 1814 - d. 1880)
1868 -
1895
Niels Cornelius
Bonnevie
(b. 1827 - d. 1899)
1896 -
1906
Nicolai Christian Grove Prebensen (b. 1850 - d.
1938)
1906 -
1908
Sigurd Lambrechts
(b. 1863 - d. 1941)
1908 -
1916
Sven
Aarrestad
(b. 1850 - d. 1942)
1917 - 1922
Hans Thomas
Knudtzon
(b. 1857 - d. 1921)
Mar 1922 - 24 Jan 1942 Jonas
Pedersen
(b. 1871 - d. 1953)
(under occupation from 9 Apr
1940)
29 Jan 1942 - 7 May 1945 Hans Henrik
Petersen
(b. 1886 - d. 1969)
(Quisling governor)
8 May 1945 - 1 Dec 1945 Eilif Løvrak
Holmesland (acting) (b. 1896 - d. 1959)
1945 -
1961
Nils
Hjelmtveit
(b. 1892 - d. 1985)
1961 -
1974
Henrik
Svensen
(b. 1904 - d. 2007)
1974 -
1983
Ebba Lodden
(f)
(b. 1913 - d. 1997)
1983 -
1994
Signe Marie Stray Ryssdal
(f) (b. 1924 - d. 2019)
10 Jan 1995 - 31 Dec 2007 Hjalmar Inge
Sunde
(b. 1937)
1 Jan 2008 - 30 Sep 2009 Svein Åril
(acting)
(b. 1946)
1 Oct 2009 - 31 Dec 2015 Øystein
Djupedal
(b. 1960)
1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019 Stein Arve
Ytterdahl
(b. 1951)
Buskerud
1 Apr 1966 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1675
Eiker amt.
1679
Buskeruds amt.
1 Jan
1919
Buskeruds amt becomes Buskerud fylke.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Viken fylke.
1 Jan
2024
Buskerud fylke (restored).
Governors
6 Aug 1675 -
1679 Ove
Lange
(b. 1648 - d.
1692)
10 Oct 1679 – 1 Jan 1695 Matthias de
Tonsberg
(b. 1638 - d. 1705)
1 Jan 1695 - 1719
Poul Glud
(b. 1661 - d. 1719)
1719 - 24 May 1760
Just Must
(b. 1691
- d. 1760)
14 Jun 1760 - 4 Jan 1788 Andreas
Fjeldsted
(b. 1717 - d. 1788)
12 Mar 1788 - 29 Mar 1803 Herman Leopoldus
Lange
(b. 1734 - d. 1803)
17 Jun 1803 - 19 May 1806 Emanuel Rafn
(Ravn)
(b. 1765 - d. 1806)
31 Oct 1806 – 30 Mar 1813 Hermann
lensgreve Wedel Jarlsberg (b. 1779 - d.
1840)
30 Mar 1813 - 2 Mar 1814 Jonas
Collett
(b. 1772 - d. 1851)
1814 -
1827
Johan
Collett
(b. 1775 - d. 1827)
1828 -
1831
Niels Arntzen
Sem
(b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1831 -
1857
Gustav Peter
Blom
(b. 1785 - d. 1869)
1858 -
1882
Paul Peter Vilhelm
Breder
(b. 1816 - d. 1890)
1882 -
1884
Thomas Cathinco Bang (1st time) (b.
1827 - d. 1902)
1884 -
1890
Nils
Vogt
(b. 1817 - d. 1894)
1890 -
1902
Thomas Cathinco Bang (2nd time) (s.a.)
1902 -
1928
Theodor Christian Stoud Platou
(b. 1858 - d. 1942)
1929 -
1935
Thomas von Westen
Angell
(b. 1871 - d. 1935)
1935 - 9 May
1945
Jens Falentinsen
Hundseid
(b. 1883 - d. 1965)
(under occupation from 10 Apr 1940,
Quisling
governor from Sep 1940)
1945 -
1950
Nils Nilsen Thune (acting to 1946) (b. 1890 - d. 1950)
1950 - 19 Oct
1962
Arnold Gerhard Dybsjord
(b. 1897 - d. 1962)
1962 - 6 Apr 1977
Olaf Fredrik
Watnebryn
(b. 1908 - d. 1977)
1977 -
1979
Gunnar Alf
Larsen
(b. 1919 - d. 2003)
1979 -
1989
Ragnar Karl Viktor Christiansen (b.
1922 - d. 2019)
1989 -
1999
Leif
Haraldseth
(b. 1929 - d. 2019)
1999 - 30 Sep 2013
Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl
(f)
(b. 1943)
1999 -
2001
Jon Arvid Lea (acting for Grøndahl)(b. 1948)
1 Oct 2013 - 31 Dec 2018 Helen
Oddveig Bjørnøy
(f)
(b. 1954)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Valgerd Svarstad
Haugland (f) (b. 1956)
(1st
time)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 part of Viken
1 Jan 2024 -
Valgerd Svarstad Haugland
(f) (s.a.)
(2nd time)
Finnmark
6 Jan 1967 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1661
Vardøhus amt.
1684
Finmarkens amt.
1 Jan
1919
Finnmark fylke.
25 Oct 1944 - 25 Sep 1945 Allied (Soviet)
occupation of Finnmark county
east of the Tana River and Fjord.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Troms og Finnmark fylke.
1 Jan
2024
Finnmark fylke (restored).
Governors
1661 - 2 Jun 1666
Christoffer
Orning
(b. 1617 - d. 1676)
2 Jun 1666 - 17 Oct 1667 Frederik
Schiort
(b. 1614 - d. 1674)
1668 – 1680
Otte Hansen Bielke
(b. 16.. - d.
1711)
1680 – 8 Jul 1682
the governor of Nordlandene
amt
8 Jul 1682 – 5 Sep 1684 the
magistrates of Bergen
5 Sep 1684 - 1700
Hans Hansen
Lilienskiold
(b. 1650 - d. 1703)
22 Jan 1701 - 1716
Erik Matssøn
Lorch (Lorich) (b. 1647 -
d. 1717)
12 Oct 1716 - 20 Jul 1718 Jacob Møinichen
(b. 1680 - d. c.1718)
1 Oct 1718 - 1721
Nicolas Friese
(Nikolai Friis) (d. c.1721)
28 Oct 1721 - 28 Aug 1729 Peter Siedelmann
(d. 1729)
29 Oct 1729 - 28 May 1738 Henrik Frimann
(b. 1678 - d. 1738)
9 Sep 1738 - 10 Aug 1750 Rasmus Kjeldsøn
(b. 1701 - d. 1753)
1750
Peter
Schnitler
(b. 1690 - d. 1751)
(appointed, did not take office)
28 Sep 1750 - 22 Feb 1757 Mathias Collett
(b. 1708 - d. 1759)
22 Feb 1757 - 5 Jan 1768 Gunder
Gundersen
Hammer
(b. 1725 - d. 1772)
5 Jan 1768 - 26 Oct 1771 Eiler
Hagerup
(b. 1736 - d. 1795)
22 Apr 1772 - 16 Nov 1778 Thorkel Jonsson
Fjeldsted
(b. 1741 - d. 1796)
16 Nov 1778 - 13 Jun 1787 Christen
Heiberg
(b. 1737 - d. 1801)
13 Jun 1787 - 26 Mar 1800 Ole Hannibal
Sommerfeldt
(b. 1753 - d. 1821)
7 May 1800 - 4 May 1806 Martin Andreas
Unmack (b.
1754 - d. 1806)
30 Jan 1807 - 22 Jul 1811 Hilmar Meincke
Krogh
(b. 1776 - d. 1851)
22 Oct 1811 - 23 Dec 1813 Frederik Wilhelm Wedel
Jarlsberg (b. 1787 - d. 1863)
1814 -
1828
Johan Caspar
Krogh
(b. 1776 - d. 1831)
1828 -
1829
Christian Ulrik
Kastrup
(b. 1784 - d. 1850)
1829 -
1833
Ulrik Fredrik
Cappelen
(b. 1797 - d. 1864)
1833 -
1843
Ole Edvard
Buck
(b. 1799 - d. 1843)
Aug 1839 - Mar
1845 Mons Lie
(b. 1803 - d. 1881)
(acting for Buck, then Harris)
1844 -
1853
Anton Theodor
Harris
(b. 1804 - d. 1866)
1854 -
1857
Carl Frederik
Motzfeldt
(b. 1808 - d. 1902)
1858 -
1866
Mathias Bonsach Krogh Nannestad (b. 1815
- d. 1878)
1866 -
1874
Jens
Holmboe
(b. 1821 - d. 1891)
1874 -
1882
Johan
Blackstad
(b. 1832 - d. 1904)
1882 -
1885
Carl Ingwart Theodor
Rynning (b. 1837 - d.
1892)
1886 -
1889
Carl Adolf
Langberg
(b. 1850 - d. 1889)
1889 -
1894
Nikolai Christian Grove Prebensen (b. 1850 - d.
1938)
1896 -
1906
Truls Johannessen Wiel
Graff (b. 1851 - d.
1918)
1906 -
1912
Andreas Tostrup
Urbye
(b. 1869 - d. 1955)
1912 -
1921
Johan Albrigt
Rivertz
(b. 1874 - d. 1942)
1922 -
1928
Hagbarth
Lund
(b. 1877 - d. 1963)
1928 - 17 Jun 1941
Hans Julius
Gabrielsen (1st time) (b. 1891 - d. 1965)
(under occupation 10 Jun 1940 - 17 Jun 1941,
German prisoner 17 Jun 1941 - 8 May 1945)
17 Jun 1941 - 1944 Thor
Bekeng
(b. 1905 - d.
1977)
(Quisling
governor)
Oct 1944 - May 1945 Johan
Andreas Lippestad
(b. 1902 - d. 1961)
(first
governor)
+ Jonas
Lie (second governor) (b. 1899 -
d. 1945)
(Quisling
acting
governors)
14 Nov 1944 -
1948
Hans Julius Gabrielsen (2nd time) (s.a.)
(German prisoner to 8 May 1945)
14 Nov 1944 - Sep 1945 Peder
Holt
(b. 1899 - d. 1963)
(acting for Gabrielsen)
Sep 1945 - Nov 1945
Erling Norvik
(b. 1899 - d. 1964)
(acting for Gabrielsen)
1948 - 24 Mar
1963 Peder
Holt
(s.a.)
1951 -
1955
Dag Tønder (acting for Holt) (b. 1907
- d. 1989)
1963 -
1974
Kolbjørn
Varmann
(b. 1904 - d. 1980)
Mar 1963 - Jul
1965 Anders Aune
(acting for Varmann) (b. 1923 - d. 2011)
1974 -
1989
Anders
Aune
(s.a.)
Jan 1990 - May
1990 Kurt
Mosbakk (acting)
(b. 1934)
1990 -
1998
Svein
Alsaker
(b. 1940)
31 Aug 1990 - 31 Jul 1993 Ingrid Røstad Fløtten
(f) (b. 1954)
(acting for Alsaker)
1 Jul 1998 - 30 Sep 2016 Gunnar
Kjønnøy
(b. 1947)
1 Oct 2016 - 15 Oct 2018 Ingvild Aleksandersen
(f)
(b. 1968)
15 Oct 2018 - 31 Dec 2018 Stian Lindgård (acting)
(b. 1968)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Elisabeth Vik Aspaker
(f)
(b. 1962)
(1st time)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 part of
Troms
og Finnmark
1 Jan 2024
-
Elisabeth Vik Aspaker
(f)
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Commander of the Soviet 14th Army in Finnmark
25 Oct 1944 - 25 Feb 1945 Vladimir Ivanovich
Shcherbakov (b. 1901 - d. 1981)
Hamar stift
(Hedemarkens amt, Kristians amt)
1864
Hamar stift
separated from Christiania
stift.
1 Jan
1919
Abolished.
Diocesan Governors (stiftamtmenn)
1864 – 31 Dec 1918
the governors of Hedemarkens amt
Hedmark
6 Feb 1987 - 31 Dec 2019
|
11 Apr 1781
Hedemarkens amt
split from Oplandenes amt (see Oppland).
1 Jan
1919
Hedemarkens amt becomes Hedmark fylke.
1 Jan
2020
Merged into Innlandet fylke.
Governors
Feb 1781 – Aug 1781 Johan
Arndt Jentoft (acting) (b. 1729 -
d. bf.1801)
27 Apr 1781 - 1 Apr 1789 Ditlev von
Pentz
(b. 1744 - d. 1821)
10 Jun 1789 - 31 Mar 1802 Andreas Høyer (acting to
... 1789) (b. 1742 - d. 1817)
31 Mar 1802 - 214 Oct 1804 Nicolai Emanuel de
Thygeson (b.
1772 - d. 1860)
19 Dec 1804 - 1816
Claus
Bendeke
(b. 1764 - d. 1828)
1817 -
1821
Lauritz
Weidemann
(b. 1775 - d. 1856)
1821 -
1849
Fredrik Hartvig Johan Heidmann
(b. 1777 - d. 1850)
1849 -
1856
August Christian
Manthey
(b. 1811 - d. 1880)
1856 -
1890
Ludvig Kyhn
(b. 1817 - d. 1890)
1874
Nils Fliflet
(acting for Kyhn) (b. 1838 - d. 1907)
1890
Truls Johannesen Wiel
Graff (b. 1851 - d. 1918)
(acting)
1890 -
1897
Oscar
Mørch
(b. 1845 - d. 1897)
1897 - 1898
August Teilmann Wilhelmsen (acting)(b. 1861
- d. 1906)
1898 - 1915
Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram
(b. 1846 - d. 1929)
1909 - 1909
Christian Blom (acting for Gram) (b.
1870 - d. 1960)
1914 - 1916
Johannes Irgens
(b. 1869
- d. 1939)
(acting [for Gram to 1915])
1916 -
1926
Torvald
Løchen
(b. 1861 - d. 1943)
1926 -
1935
Knud Iversen
Øyen
(b. 1865 - d. 1942)
1935 - 25 Jan 1942
Knut Monsen
Nordanger (1st time) (b. 1883 - d. 1965)
(under occupation from 18 Apr 1940,
German prisoner 14 Apr - 17 Oct 1942)
25 Jan 1942 - 1943
Ole Vries
Hassel
(b. 1894 – d. 1984)
(Quisling governor)
1943 - 1945
Halvor Pedersen
Hektoen
(b. 1884 - d. 1960)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 -
1953
Knut Monsen Nordanger (2nd time) (s.a.)
1954 -
1966
Alf Frydenberg
(b. 1896 - d. 1989)
1966 -
1979
Erling
Anger
(b. 1909 - d. 1999)
1979 -
1981
Anfinn
Lund
(b. 1926 - d. 2001)
11 Mar 1981 - 17 Mar 1994 Odvar
Nordli
(b. 1927 - d. 2018)
1994 - 22 Aug
1996
Kjell
Borgen
(b. 1939 - d. 1996)
1996 - 31 Dec 2018
Sigbjørn
Johnsen
(b. 1950)
1996 - 1997
Ola Skjølaas (acting)
(b. 1941 - d. 2006)
Apr 1997 - Oct
1997 Jon Arvid
Lea (acting for Johnsen) (b. 1948)
Oct 2009 - 15 Feb 2010 Tormod Wilhelm
Karlstrøm
(b. 1944)
(acting for Johnsen)
15 Feb 2010 - 2013
Sylvia
Brustad
(f)
(b. 1966)
(acting for Johnsen)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Knut
Storberget
(b. 1964)
Hordaland
1 Dec 1961 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1681
Bergenhus amt
1763
Bergenhus amt divided into Nordre Bergenhus amt
and Søndre
Bergenhus amt.
1 Jan
1919
Søndre Bergenhus amt becomes Hordaland fylke.
1 Jan
2020
Merged into Vestland fylke.
Governors
13 Dec 1681 - 10 Oct 1690 Laurids Lindenow
(b. 1650 - d. 1690)
17 Mar 1691 - 1696 Hans
Nielsen
(b. c.1630 - d. 1696)
1696 - 1702
Axel Rosenkrantz
(b. 1670
- d. 1723)
1702 - 31 Mar 1704
Christian de Stockfleth
d.e. (b. 1639 - d.
1704)
10 May 1704 - 6 Dec 1704 Mathias de
Tonsberg
(b. 1638 - d. 1705)
6 Dec 1704 - 11 Aug 1710 Vilhelm de Tonsberg
(b. 1680 - d. 1731)
29 Sep 1710 - 9 Apr 1711 Edvard Hammond
(b. 1688 - d. 1711)
1 Jun 1711 - 14 May 1728 Andreas Undall
(b. 1669 - d. 1728)
31 Aug 1728 - 25 Feb 1732 Wilhelm August von der
Osten (b. 1697 - d. 1764)
25 Feb 1732 - 1738 Ulrik
Kaas
(b. 1677 - d. 1746)
3 Jul 1738 - 3 Apr 1741 Christian
Bagger
(b. 1692 - d. 1741)
12 Dec 1741 - 26 Sep 1749 Christian Møinichen
(b. 1683 - d. 1749)
1743 - 1744
Jonas Lym (acting
for Møinichen) (b.
1679 - d. 1760)
18 Nov 1749 - 1766
Ulrik Frederik de
Cicignon
(b. 1698 - d. 1772)
13 May 1766 - 8 Feb 1768 Jørgen Erik Skeel
(b. 1737 - d. 1795)
12 Apr 1768 - 1772
Christian Petersen
(b. 1701 - d. 1775)
15 Jul 1772 - 16 Jun 1774 Albrecht Philip von
Levetzau (b. 1744 - d. 1817)
7 Jul 1774 - 24 Mar 1789 Christian de
Schouboe
(b. 1737 - d. 1789)
1 Jul 1789 - 18 Jun 1802 Frederik Hauch
(b. 1754 - d. 1839)
18 Jun 1802 - 27 Feb 1814 Johan Randulf
Bull
(b. 1749 - d. 1829)
1815 -
1825
Wilhelm Friman Koren
Christie (b. 1778 - d.
1849)
1825 -
1827
Christian Magnus
Falsen
(b. 1782 - d. 1830)
1829 -
1834
Georg Jacob
Bull
(b. 1785 - d. 1854)
1834 -
1852
Edvard
Hagerup
(b. 1781 - d. 1853)
1852 -
1859
Jens
Schydtz
(b. 1792 - d. 1859)
1859 -
1875
Paul Meyer
Smit
(b. 1813 - d. 1875)
1875 -
1884
Nicolai Ditlev Ammon
Raeder (b.
1817 - d. 1884)
1884 -
1907
Justin Gottfried Andreas Hoffmann (b. 1836 - d.
1907)
1907 - 1918
Hroar Olsen
(b. 1859 - d.
1941)
1918 -
1929
Kristian Friis
Petersen
(b. 1867 - d. 1932)
1929 -
1933
Ernst Andreas Johannesen
(b. 1870 - d. 1957)
1934 - 25 Jul 1941
Gjert Lindebraekke (1st time) (b.
1879 - d. 1960)
(under occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
1941
Ketil Gjerløv Fleischer
Harnoll (b. 1909 - d. 1974)
(Quisling
governor)
1941 - 1 Jul 1944
Christian Astrup
(b. 1909 - d. 1983)
(Quisling
governor)
1 Jul 1944 - May 1945 Ole
Eberhard Rømcke
(b. 1899 - d. 1968)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 - 1949
Gjert Lindebraekke (2nd
time) (s.a.)
1949 -
1966
Mons
Lid
(b. 1896 - d. 1967)
1966 -
1984
Lars
Leiro
(b. 1914 - d. 2005)
1984 -
1998
Håkon
Randal
(b. 1930 - d. 2012)
1998 - 1 Apr 2010
Svein
Alsaker
(b. 1940)
1 Apr 2010 - 1 Jun 2010 Rune Fjeld
(acting)
(b. 1951)
1 Jun 2010 - 31 Dec 2019 Lars
Sponheim
(b. 1957)
Bergen
Adopted
15 Aug 1924 |
1831
Bergen amt separated from Søndre
Bergenhus.
1 Jan
1919
Becomes Bergen fylke.
1972
Merged with Horadland.
Governors
1831 - 1972
the governors of Søndre
Bergenhus/
Hordaland (s.a.)
Bergen stift
(Nordre Bergenhus amt, Søndre Bergenhus amt,
Bergen amt, part of Romsdals amt; and
until 1844, included Finmarkens amt,
Nordlandenes amt, and Tromsø amt)
1 Feb 1662
Bergenhus (later
Bergen) stift.
1 Jan
1919
Abolished.
Diocesan Governors (stiftamtmenn)
1662 – 1665
Ove Bjelke
(b. 1611 - d. 1674)
1665 – 1666
Claus von
Ahlefeldt
(b. 1614 - d. 1674)
23 Mar 1666 – 15 May 1667 Georg Reichwein
(b. 1593 - d. 1667)
1667 – Aug 1669
Hans Hansen Lillienskiold d.e.
(b. 1610 - d. 1681)
(1st time)
2 Aug 1669 – 16 Mar 1679 Johan Frederik
von Marschalck (b. 1618 - d. 1679)
1679 – 5 Nov 1681
Hans Hansen Lillienskiold d.e.
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
13 Dec 1681 – 1699
Christian Gyldenløve, greve af (b.
1674 - d. 1703)
Samsøe
7 Oct 1699 – 31 Mar 1704 Christian
Stockfleth d.e. (b.
1639 - d. 1704)
10 May 1704 - 25 Feb 1732 the
governors of Bergenhus
(s.a.)
25 Feb 1732 - 1738
Ulrik
Kaas
(b. 1677 - d. 1746)
1738 -
1831
the governors of Bergenhus/Søndre
Bergenhus (s.a.)
1829 - 1834
Georg Jacob
Bull
(b. 1785 - d. 1854)
1834 - 1852
Edvard
Hagerup
(b. 1781 - d. 1853)
1852 - 1859
Jens
Schydtz
(b. 1792 - d. 1859)
1859 - 1875
Paul Meyer
Smit
(b. 1813 - d. 1875)
1875 -
1884
Nicolai Ditlev Ammon
Ræder
(b. 1817 - d. 1884)
1884 -
1907
Justin Gottfried Andreas Hoffmann (b. 1836 - d.
1907)
1907 - 31 Dec 1918
the governors of Søndre
Bergenhus
(s.a.)
Innlandet
Adopted 1 Jan 2020 |
1 Jan
2020
Innlandet fylke (formed by merger of Oppland and Hedmark).
Governor
1 Jan 2020
-
Knut
Storberget
(b. 1964)
Møre
og Romsdal
Adopted 15 Mar 1978
|
1671
Romsdal og Nordmøre amt.
1689
Renamed Romsdals amt.
1 Jan
1919
Romsdals amt becomes Møre fylke.
1 Jul
1935
Renamed Møre og Romsdal.
Governors
4 Oct 1671 – 12 Jun 1675 Christian
Lindenow
(b. 1632 - d. 1675)
12 Jun 1675 – Dec 1677 Fredrik von
Offenberg
(b. 1610 - d. 1677)
12 Nov 1678 – 1691
Jonas Lillienskiold
(b. 1651 - d. 1691)
25 Jul 1691 – 9 Oct 1700 Iver von Ahnen
(b. 1657 - d. 1722)
7 Jan 1702 – 12 Jan 1703 Hans Lilienskiold
(b. 1650 - d. 1703)
23 Dec 1704 – 27 Oct 1719 Hans Hanssen Nobel d.e.
(b. 1657 - d.
1732)
1720 – Aug 1729
Erik
Must
(b. 1683 - d. 1729)
29 Aug 1729 – 1730
Michael Worm
(b. 1707 - d.
....)
1730 – 14 May 1742
Christian Sørensen Solgaard
(b. 1687 - d. 1742)
2 Jul 1742 – 11 Jun 1751 Christian Ulrich
Tønder (b. 1699
- d. 1751)
11 Aug 1751 – 26 Aug 1773 Nils Krog Collin
(b. 1718 - d. 1782)
11 Aug 1751 – 14 Jun 1760 Andreas Fjeldsted
(b. 1717 - d. 1788)
14 Jun 1760 - 26 Aug 1773 Niels Krog Collin
(b. 1736 - d. 1797)
26 Aug 1773 – 22 Feb 1800 Even Hammer
(b. 1732 - d. 1800)
26 Mar 1800 - 28 Jul 1811 Ole Hannibal
Sommerfeldt
(b. 1753 - d. 1821)
18 Sep 1811 - 1840
Hilmar Meincke
Krogh
(b. 1776 - d. 1851)
1840 -
1853
Gudbrand
Thesen
(b. 1792 - d. 1866)
1853 -
1893
Nils Weyer
Arveschoug
(b. 1807 - d. 1894)
1893 -
1902
Ludvig Arnoldus
Leth
(b. 1836 - d. 1902)
1902 - 6 Apr
1906
Alexander Lange
Kielland
(b. 1849 - d. 1906)
1906 - 13 Dec
1913
Birger
Kildal
(b. 1849 - d. 1913)
1914 -
1928
Oddmund
Vik
(b. 1858 - d. 1930)
1928 - 30 Jun 1941
Trygve Utheim (1st time)
(b.
1884 - d. 1952)
(under occupation 1 May 1940 - 30 Jun 1941)
1933 -
1935
.... (acting for Utheim)
1941 - 1945
Erling
Kvadsheim
(b. 1885 - d. 1958)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 - 15 Jun 1952
Trygve Utheim (2nd time)
(s.a.)
May 1945 - 1945
Olav Berntsen Oksvik
(b. 1887 - d.
1958)
(acting
for Utheim)
1952 -
1958
Olav Berntsen Oksvik
(s.a.)
1958 -
1966
Erling
Anger
(b. 1909 - d. 1999)
1966 -
1972
Erling
Sandene
(b. 1921 - d. 2015)
1972 -
1977
Kåre
Ellingsgård
(b. 1926 - d. 2017)
1977 - 1 Jan
2002 Alv
Jacob
Fostervoll
(b. 1932 - d. 2015)
1 Jan 2002 - 1 Oct 2009 Ottar
Befring
(b. 1939 - d. 2023)
1 Oct 2009 - 31 Dec 2018 Lodve
Solholm
(b. 1949)
1 Jan 2019 - 30 Sep 2021 Rigmor Brøste
(f)(acting)
(b. 1965)
1 Oct 2021 -
Else-May Norderhus
(f)
(b. 1973)
Nord-Trøndelag
8 Mar 1957 - 31 Dec 2017
|
24 Sep 1804
Nordre Trondhjems amt
created from Trondhjems amt.
1 Jan 1919
Nordre Trondhjems amt
becomes Nord-Trøndelag fylke.
1 Jan 2018
Merged into Trøndelag
fylke.
Governors
1805 -
1815
Caspar Conrad
Rafn
(b. 1763 - d. 1830)
1815 -
1833
Christen
Elster
(b. 1763 - d. 1833)
1833 -
1857
Adam Johan Frederik
Poulsen, (b. 1798 -
d. 1876)
greve af Trampe
1857 -
1866
Fredrik August
Wessel-Berg
(b. 1809 - d. 1895)
1867 -
1884
Carsten
Smith
(b. 1817 - d. 1884)
1884 -
1894
Lars Otto Roll
Grundt
(b. 1843 - d. 1907)
1894 -
1898
Ole Anton
Quam
(b. 1835 - d. 1904)
1898 -
1902
Halvor Bache Guldahl (1st time) (b.
1859 - d. 1931)
1902 -
1916
Torvald
Løchen
(b. 1861 - d. 1943)
1916 -
1927
Halvor Bache Guldahl (2nd time) (s.a.)
11 Nov 1927 - 30 Jun 1941 Håkon Martin
Five
(b. 1880 - d. 1944)
(under occupation from 3 May 1940, dies 15 Jan 1944)
30 Jun 1941 - 1945
Torbjørn Eggen
(b. 1906 - d. 1984)
(Quisling
governor)
1945
Bent Berger (acting)
(b. 1898 - d. 1985)
1945 -
1959
Asbjørn
Lindboe
(b. 1889 - d. 1967)
1959 -
1964
Gustav
Sjaastad
(b. 1902 - d. 1964)
1964 -
1971
Ole Bae
(b. 1902
- d. 1972)
1971 -
1979
Leif
Granli
(b. 1909 - d. 1988)
1979 -
1991
Ola Hansen
Kveli
(b. 1921 - d. 2003)
1991 - 31 May 2008 Inger
Lise Gjørv
(f)
(b. 1938 - d. 2009)
1991 - 1993
Oddbjørn Karmhus Nordset
(b. 1946)
(1st time)(acting for Gjørv)
1 Jun 2008 - 2 Nov 2009 Oddbjørn
Karmhus Nordset
(s.a.)
(2nd time)(acting)
2 Nov 2009 - 30 Sep 2017 Inge
Ryan
(b. 1956)
1 Oct 2017 - 31 Dec 2017 Gerd Janne
Kristoffersen (f)
(b. 1952)
(acting)
Nordland
Adopted
15 Jan 1965
|
1668
Nordlandenes amt.
1 Jan
1919
Nordland fylke.
1 Jan 1995 -
Nordland governors also governors of Jan Mayen.
Governors
1668 - 16 Jun
1669
Preben von Ahnen
(b. 1606 - d. 1675)
16 Jun 1669 – 6 Mar 1686 Knud Gjedde
(b. c.1635 - d. 1707)
6 Mar 1686 – 1691
Christian Kruse
(b. 1636 - d. 1699)
10 Oct 1691 – 1 Jun 1694 Peter
Christoffersen Tønder (b.
1641 - d. 1694)
7 Jul 1694 – Mar 1703 Christoffer
Heidemann
(b. c.1623 - d. 1703)
24 Apr 1703 – Jan 1704 Frederik Splet
(b. 16.. - d. 1704)
12 Apr 1704 – 1755 Ove
Sørensen Schjelderup
(b. 1674 - d. 1759)
1755 – 26 May 1767 Hans
Hagerup de Gyldenpalm (b.
1717 - d. 1781)
8 Jun 1767 – 18 Dec 1771 Peter Holm
(b. 1733 - d. 1817)
18 Feb 1771 - 1789
Joachim de Knagenhielm
(b. 1727 - d. 1796)
8 Jul 1789 - 5 Aug 1811 Christian
Torber Hegge
(b. 1743 - d. 1818)
5 Aug 1811 -
1815
Christen
Elster
(b. 1763 - d. 1833)
1815 -
1828
Johan Ernst
Berg
(b. 1768 - d. 1828)
1829 -
1833
Adam Johan Frederik
Poulsen, (b. 1798 -
d. 1876)
greve af Trampe
1834 -
1847
Lars Bastian Ridder
Stabell (b.
1798 - d. 1860)
1848 -
1853
Niels Weyer
Arveschoug
(b. 1807 - d. 1894)
1854 -
1858
Poul Peter Vilhelm
Breder
(b. 1816 - d. 1890)
1858 -
1867
Carsten
Smith
(b. 1817 - d. 1884)
1867 -
1878
Claus Nieuwejaar
Worsøe
(b. 1822 - d. 1906)
1878 -
1889
Otto Benjamin Andreas
Aubert (b. 1841 - d.
1898)
1890 -
1908
Rasmus
Theisen
(b. 1837 - d. 1908)
1908 -
1913
Anton
Omholt
(b. 1861 - d. 1925)
1913 -
1921
Jonas
Pedersen
(b. 1871 - d. 1953)
1922 -
1939
Olaf
Amundsen
(b. 1876 - d. 1939)
1940 - 1 Aug 1941
Karl Hess Larsen (1st time)
(b. 1900 - d. 1966)
(under occupation from 31 May 1940)
Aug 1941 - 1942
Per von Hirsch
(b. 1902 - d. 1987)
(Quisling
governor)
15 Sep 1942 - 1945 Karl
Ludvig Nøstvik
(b. 1895 - d. 1992)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 - 1951
Karl Hess Larsen (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1951 -
1966
Bue
Fjermeros
(b. 1912 - d. 2000)
1966 -
1983
Ole
Aavatsmark
(b. 1918 - d. 1983)
1983 -
1991
Odd
With
(b. 1921 - d. 2006)
1991 - 2007
Åshild Hauan
(f)
(b. 1941 - d. 2017)
7 Jun 1991 - 1 Sep 1993 Davis
Idin Pareli Johansen
(b. 1926 - d. 2020)
(acting for Hauan)
1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2007 Ola
Bjerkaas (acting)
(b. 1952)
1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2018 Hill-Marta
Solberg (f)
(b. 1951)
1 Jan 2008 - 31 Oct 2009 Ola
Bjerkaas
(s.a.)
(acting for Solberg)
2 Jan 2019
-
Tom Cato
Karlsen
(b. 1974)
Oppland
18 May 1989 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1757
Oplandenes amt split
from Aggershuus amt.
1781
Split into
Christians amt and Hedemarkens amt (s.a.)
1877
Spelling changed to Kristians amt.
1 Jan
1919
Kristians amt becomes Opland fylke.
1949
Renamed Oppland.
1 Jan
2020
Merged into Innlandet fylke.
Governors
22 Feb 1757 – 23 Apr 1759 Mathias Collett
(b. 1708 - d. 1759)
22 Jan 1760 – 12 Apr 1768 Christian Petersen
(b. 1701 - d. 1775)
29 Jul 1768 – 4 Apr 1781 Christian Frederik
Holck (b. 1734
- d. 1781)
27 Apr 1781 - 30 May 1811
Christian Sommerfeldt
(b. 1746 - d. 1811)
28 Jul 1811 -
1821 Ole
Hannibal
Sommerfeldt
(b. 1753 - d. 1821)
1821 -
1851
Lauritz
Weidemann
(b. 1775 - d. 1856)
1852 -
1854
Hans
Tostrup
(b. 1799 - d. 1856)
1854 -
1859
Johan Christian
Collett
(b. 1817 - d. 1895)
1859 -
1869
Christian
Jensen
(b. 1823 - d. 1884)
1869 -
1878
Hans Thomas
Meinich
(b. 1819 - d. 1878)
1878 -
1900
Jan Greve Skjoldborg
(b. 1832 - d. 1901)
1900 -
1908
Peter Theodor
Holst
(b. 1843 - d. 1908)
1908 -
1933
Sigurd Lambrechts
(b. 1863 - d. 1941)
1933 - 25 Jul 1941
Alfred Ihlen (1st time)
(b. 1877 - d. 1961)
(under occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
1941 - 1945
Arve Nilsen Frøisland (Frøysland)
(b. 1885 - d. 1983)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 - 1947
Alfred Ihlen (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1 Jul 1948 -
1960
Hans Julius
Gabrielsen
(b. 1891 - d. 1965)
1961 -
1976
Nils Kristoffer Handal
(b. 1906 - d. 1992)
1976 -
1981
Thorstein
Treholt
(b. 1911 - d. 1993)
1981 -
2001
Knut
Korsaeth
(b. 1932 - d. 2022)
2001 - 2015
Kristin Hille Valla
(f)
(b. 1944)
2 Feb 2015 - 31 Dec 2018 Christl
Kvam
(f)
(b. 1962)
4 Mar 2016 - 31 Dec 2018 Sigurd Tremoen
(acting for Kvam) (b. 1965)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Knut
Storberget
(b. 1964)
Oslo
-
- 1924 - 2002
|
-
- Adopted 2002
|
1842
Christiania amt
separated from Aggershuus.
1877
Spelling changed to Kristiania.
1 Jan
1919
Kristiania stiftamt becomes Kristiania
fylke.
1 Jan
1925
Renamed Oslo fylke.
Governors
1842 - 1918
the governors of Akershus (s.a.)
1918 - 1923
Håkon Løken
(acting)
(b. 1859 - d. 1923)
1924 - 31 Dec 2019 the
governors of Akershus (s.a.)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 the
governors of Viken (s.b.)
1 Jan 2024
-
the governors of Akershus (s.a.)
Kristiansand stift
(Bratsberg amt, Lister og Mandal amt,
Nedenes amt, Stavanger amt)
1662
Stavanger stiftamt
(of Stavanger amt, Bratsberg amt,
and Agdesiden
amt;
[in 1671 Agdesiden amt], is
divided into Lister og Mandal
amt and Nedenes amt in 1669).
6 May 1682
Renamed Christianssand
(seat of the stift moved).
1877
Spelling of Christianssand changed to Kristianssand.
1889
Spelling changed to Kristiansand.
1 Jan
1919
Abolished.
Diocesan Governors (Stiftamtmenn)
1662 - 4 Oct
1671
Henrik
Below
(b. c.1613 - d. 1674)
4 Oct 1671 – 11 Dec 1679 Ove Juul (Juel)
(b. 1615 - d. 1688)
1680 - 1682
Jens (Toller) Rosenheim (acting) (b.
1636 - d. 1690)
1682 – 23 Aug 1685 Ludvig
Holgersen
Rosenkrantz (b. 1628
- d. 1685)
1685 – 1 Jan 1695
Christian
Stockfleth
(b. 1639 - d. 1704)
(absent to 1692)
1685 - 1692
Claus
Røyem
(b. 1638 - d. 1692)
(acting for Stokfleth)
1695 – 17 Feb
1700
Mathias de
Tonsberg
(b. 1640 - d. 1705)
17 Feb 1700 – 1 Apr 1711 Christian Frederik
Pogwisch (b. c.1650
- d. 1711)
(Powisch)
20 Apr 1711 – 8 Feb 1718 Henrik
Adeler
(b. 1660 - d. 1718)
30 May 1718 – 4 Oct 1728 Johan Sigismund
Hassius Lillienpalm(b. 1664 - d. 1729)
8 Nov 1728 – 11 Dec 1730 Alexander Frederik
Møsting (b. 1680 - d. 1737)
11 Dec 1730 – 27 May 1738 Johan Albrecht
With
(b. 1683 - d. 1754)
27 May 1738 – 20 Apr 1742 Carl Juel
(b. 1706 - d. 1767)
20 Apr 1742 – 10 Feb 1746 Heinrich von
Reuss
(b. 1707 - d. 1783)
10 Feb 1746 – 9 Feb 1751 Joachim Hartvig
Johan von Barner (b. 1699 - d. 1768)
9 Feb 1751 – 28 Dec 1766 Frederik
Adeler
(b. 1700 - d. 1766)
1767
Gustav Frederik Holck-Winterfeldt (b. 1733 - d.
1776)
(acting)
26 Mar 1767 – 19 Feb 1781 Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm
(b. 1717 - d.
1781)
9 Apr 1781 – 9 Jan 1788 Frederik Georg
Adeler
(b. 1736 - d. 1810)
9 Jan 1788 – 23 Dec 1789 Frederik
Moltke
(b. 1754 - d. 1836)
23 Dec 1789 – 12 Feb 1800 Hans Christoph Diderik
Victor (b. 1754 - d. 1829)
von
Levetzow
26 Feb 1800 – 15 Oct 1804 Otto Joachim
Moltke
(b. 1770 - d. 1853)
24 Oct 1804 – 3 Jun 1809 Emanuel de Thygeson
(b. 1772 - d. 1860)
7 May 1810 - 26 Nov 1811 Hans Vilhelm
Cederfeld de Simonsen (b. 1777 - d. 1836)
30 Mar 1812 –
1836
Oluf Schouboe
(b. 1777 - d. 1844)
1837 –
1846
Niels Arntzen Sem
(b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1846 – 1852
Carl Valentin Falsen
(b. 1787 - d. 1852)
1852 –
1859
Mathias Bille Kjørboe
(b. 1794 - d. 1859)
1860 –
1871
Nils Petersen
Vogt
(b. 1817 - d. 1894)
1871 –
1881
Jakob Kraefting Bonnevie
(b. 1814 - d. 1881)
1882 –
1889
Johan Christian Georg Hvoslef (b.
1819 - d. 1889)
1889 –
1906
Jacob Stang
(b. 1830 - d.
1907)
1907 – 31 Dec
1918
Daniel Bremer Juell
Koren
(b. 1858 - d. 1948)
Østfold
26 Sep 1958 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1671
Smaalenenes amt.
1 Jan
1919
Smaalenenes amt becomes Østfold fylke.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Viken fylke.
1 Jan
2024
Østfold fylke (restored).
Governors
4 Oct 1671 – 4 Nov 1673 Erik Ottesen
Banner til Tyberg (b. 1618 - d. 1687)
4 Nov 1673 – 23 Jul 1687 Hans Jørgensen
Kaas
(b. 1640 - d. 1700)
23 Jul 1687 – 21 Sep 1700 Ambrosius Charisius
(b. 1644 - d. 1700)
16 Oct 1700 – 3 Nov 1703 Casper Gottlob
Moltke
(b. 1668 - d. 1728)
3 Nov 1703 – 23 Apr 1740 Niels Werenskiold
(b. 1669 - d. 1741)
23 Apr 1740 – 1 Aug 1743 Henning Frimann
(b. 1681 - d. 1743)
13 Sep 1743 – 1767 Baltzer
Sechmann Fleischer (b. 1703
- d. 1767)
1768 – 12 Nov 1781
Henrik Lachmann
(b. 1738 - d. 1797)
12 Nov 1781 – 1 Jul 1789 Frederik Hauch
(b. 1754 - d. 1839)
1 Jul 1789 – 1794
Johan Christian Hauch
(b. 1760 - d. 1819)
10 Dec 1794 – 19 Dec 1804 Andreas Hofgaard
(b. 1748 - d. 1811)
19 Dec 1804 – 9 Jan 1810 Marcus Gjøe
Rosenkrantz (b.
1762 - d. 1838)
9 Jan 1810 – 2 Mar 1814 Mathias Otto
Leth Sommerhjelm (b. 1764 - d. 1827)
28 Nov 1814 - 8 Nov 1830 Valentin
Christian Wilhelm Sibbern (b. 1779 - d. 1853)
1 Jan 1831 - 23 Sep 1846 Gregers Winther
Wulfsberg
(b. 1780 - d. 1846)
(acting to 30 Mar 1831)
27 Jan 1847 - 15 Mar 1855 Christian
Birch-Reichenwald
(b. 1814 - d. 1891)
6 Aug 1855 - 17 May 1880 Carl
Sibbern
(b. 1809 - d. 1880)
31 Jan 1881 - 29 Nov 1890 Johan Lauritz
Rasch
(b. 1829 - d. 1901)
6 Mar 1891 - 1 Apr 1905 Ulrik Frederik
Christian Arneberg (b. 1829 - d. 1911)
1 Apr 1905 -
1917
Hans Christian Albert
Hansen (b. 1847 - d.
1925)
1918 -
1933
Eivind Olaf Bødtker
(b. 1863 - d. 1946)
1933 -
1940
Ernst Andreas Johannesen
(b. 1870 - d. 1957)
1 Apr 1940 - 1 Dec 1941 Lyder
Døscher Bull (1st time) (b.
1881 - d. 1959)
(under occupation from 13 Apr 1940)
1 Dec 1941 - 1945
Hans Solgaard Jacobsen
(b. 1901 - d. 1980)
(Quisling governor)
1945 -
1951
Lyder Døscher Bull (2nd
time) (s.a.)
1951 - 15 Jun
1966
Karl Hess Larsen
(b. 1900 - d. 1966)
1966 -
1981
Jacob
Modalsli
(b. 1911 - d. 1984)
1981 -
1986
Lars
Korvald
(b. 1916 - d. 2006)
1986 -
1998
Erling
Norvik
(b. 1928 - d. 1998)
1998 -
2003
Edvard
Grimstad
(b. 1933 - d. 2014)
2003
Lise Beret Sandereid (f)(acting) (b. 1943)
1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2015 Anne Enger
Lahnstein
(f)
(b. 1949)
(from 2 Oct 2006, Anne Enger)
1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018 Trond
Rønningen
(b. 1967)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Valgerd Svarstad
Haugland (f) (b. 1956)
(1st time)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 part of Viken
1 Jan 2024 -
Valgerd Svarstad Haugland
(f) (s.a.)
(2nd time)
Rogaland
Adopted 11 Jan 1974
|
1671
Stavanger amt.
1 Jan
1919
Stavanger amt becomes Rogaland
fylke.
Governors
1671 – Oct 1673
Henrik Below
(d.
1674)
8 Oct 1673 – 1684
Ludvig Holgersen Rosenkrantz
(b. 1628 - d. 1685)
1684 – 6 May 1687
Daniel Danielsen Knoff
(b. 1648 - d. 1703)
14 Jun 1687 – 17 Feb 1700 Christian
Frederik Pogwisch (b. c.1650
- d. 1711)
(Powisch)
17 Feb 1700 – 29 Sep 1710 Edvard Hammond
(b. c.1668 - d. 1711)
29 Sep 1710 – 1714
Ulrik Christian
Messe
(b. 16.. - d. 1714)
7 May 1714 – 1726
Hans Nobel d.y.
(b. 1657 - d.
1732)
2 Apr 1726 – 2 Jun 1746
Bendix Christian de Fine
(b. 1696 - d. 1746)
15 Aug 1746 – 4 Oct 1761 Henrik
Wilhelm Tillisch
(b. 1720 - d. 1761)
24 May 1762 – 1767 Henrik
Lachmann
(b. 1738 - d. 1797)
5 Jan 1768 – 18 Oct 1772 Gunder
Hammer
(b. 1725 - d. 1772)
3 Dec 1772 – 5 Jul 1781
Vilhelm Mathias Skeel
(b. 1746 - d. 1817)
5 Jul 1781 – 9 Nov 1785 Peter
Frederik Ulrik Benzon (b.
1760 - d. 1840)
9 Nov 1785 – 20 Mar 1799 Frederik
Otto Scheel
(b. 1748 - d. 1803)
8 May 1799 – 29 May 1810 Ulrich
Wilhelm Koren
(b. 1747 - d. 1826)
29 May 1810 – 30 Mar 1812 Oluf Borch de
Schouboe (b.
1777 - d. 1844)
7 May 1812 – 21 Apr 1814 Ulrik
Fredrik Anton de Schouboe (b. 1782 - d.
1863)
1814 -
1824
Wilhelm Frimann Krog
(b. 1767 - d. 1825)
1825 -
1826
Jens
Erichstrup
(b. 1775 - d. 1826)
1826 -
1828
Peder Martinius
Ottesen
(b. 1782 - d. 1852)
1829 -
1833
Christian Ulrik
Kastrup
(b. 1784 - d. 1850)
1833 -
1853
Gunder
Aas
(b. 1785 - d. 1853)
1853 -
1863
Anton Theodor
Harris
(b. 1804 - d. 1866)
1864 -
1888
Vilhelm Hermann Ludvig von Munthe (b. 1814 - d.
1888)
af Morgenstierne
1889 -
1910
Carl Lauritz Mechelborg
Oppen (b. 1830 - d. 1914)
1910 -
1932
Thorvald Andreas Larsen
(b. 1863 - d. 1936)
1932 - 25 Jul 1941
John Norem
(1st time)
(b. 1888 - d. 1976)
(under occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
Jul 1941 - May 1945 Alf
Skjegstad Krog (acting)
(b. 1895 - d. 19..)
(Quisling
governor)
8 May 1945 - 1958
John Norem (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1959 -
1968
Paul Ingolf
Ingebretsen
(b. 1904 - d. 1968)
1968 -
1973
Gunnar Fredrik
Hellesen
(b. 1913 - d. 2005)
1973 -
1982
Konrad Birger
Knutsen
(b. 1925 - d. 2012)
1982 -
1991
Kristin Lønningdal
(f)
(b. 1923 - d. 2010)
1991 - 2013
Tora Aasland
(f)
(b. 1942)
1991 - 1 Oct 1993
Harald Torfinn Thune (1st
time) (b.
1952)
(acting for Aasland)
18 Oct 2007 - 20 Mar 2012 Harald Torfinn
Thune (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting for Aasland)
1 Nov 2013 - 30 Jun 2019 Magnhild
Meltveit Kleppa (f)
(b. 1948)
1 Jul 2019 - 31 Oct 2021 Lone Merethe
Solheim (f) (acting) (b. 1964)
1 Nov 2021
-
Bent
Høie
(b. 1971)
Sogn og
Fjordane
23 Sep 1983 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1763
Nordre Bergenhus amt split from part of Bergenhus amt.
1 Jan
1919
Becomes Sogn og Fjordane fylke.
1 Jan
2020
Merged into Vestland fylke.
Governors
19 Sep 1763 - 18 Feb 1771 Joachim de Knagenhielm
(b. 1727 - d.
1796)
18 Feb 1771 - 23 Nov 1779 Magnus Theiste
(b. 1725 - d. 1791)
8 May 1780 - 27 Apr 1781 Ditlev von Pentz
(b. 1744 - d. 1821)
27 Apr 1781 - 12 Mar 1788 Jonas Ramus Petersen
(b. 1748 - d. 1804)
30 Apr 1788 - 28 Apr 1789 Niels Dorph Gunnerus
(b.
1751 - d. 1789)
1 Jul 1789 - 25 Feb 1794 Peder Hersleb
Harboe
(b. 1755 - d. 1794)
1 Oct 1794 - 1 Oct 1802 Andreas Hiort
(b. 1740 - d. 1817)
22 Dec 1802 - 7 Apr 1811 Niels Andreas Vibe
(b. 1759 - d. 1814)
27 Apr 1811 - 18 Sep 1811 Hilmar Meincke Krohg
(b.
1776 - d. 1851)
(appointed, did not take office)
22 Oct 1811 - 16 Jun 1814 Herman Gerhard Treschow
(b. 1780 - d.
1836)
1814 -
1822
Christian Magnus
Falsen
(b. 1782 - d. 1830)
1822 -
1831
Edvard
Hagerup
(b. 1781 - d. 1853)
1831 -
1832
Fredrik
Riis
(b. 1789 - d. 1845)
1833 -
1844
Christian Ulrik
Kastrup
(b. 1784 - d. 1850)
1844 -
1852
Hans
Tostrup
(b. 1799 - d. 1856)
1852 -
1860
Emil
Aubert
(b. 1811 - d. 1872)
1861 -
1869
Johan Collett
Falsen
(b. 1817 - d. 1879)
1870 -
1875
Nicolai Ditlev Ammon
Raeder (b.
1817 - d. 1884)
1875 -
1889
Carl Lauritz Mechelborg
Oppen (b. 1830 - d. 1914)
1889 -
1902
Olaj Johan
Olsen
(b. 1851 - d. 1920)
1902 -
1910
John
Utheim
(b. 1847 - d. 1910)
1910 -
1930
Ingolf Elster
Christensen
(b. 1872 - d. 1943)
1930 - 25 Jul
1941
Hans Kristian
Seip
(b. 1881 - d. 1945)
(under occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
26 Jul 1941 - 1 Jul 1944 Vidar Atne (acting)
(b. 1894 - d. 1962)
(Quisling
governor)
1 Jul 1944 -
1945
Konrad
Sundlo
(b. 1881 - d. 1965)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 -
1971
Nikolai
Schei
(b. 1901 - d. 1985)
1971 -
1976
Arne
Ekeberg
(b. 1925)
1976 -
1994
Ingvald Johan
Ulveseth
(b. 1924 - d. 2008)
1 Aug 1994 - 2011
Oddvar J.
Flaete
(b. 1944)
2011 - 13 Aug 2018
Anne Karin
Hamre
(f)
(b. 1965)
13 Aug 2018 - 31 Dec 2018 Gunnar O. Haereid
(acting)
(b. 1970)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Lars
Sponheim
(b. 1957)
Sør-Trøndelag
9 Dec 1983 - 31 Dec 2017
|
24 Sep 1804
Søndre Trondhjems amt, created from Trondhjems amt.
1 Jan
1919
Søndre Trondhjems amt becomes Sør-Trøndelag
fylke.
1 Jan
2018
Merged into Trøndelag fylke.
Governors
24 Oct 1804 - 23 Jul 1810 Erik Must Angell
(b. 1744 - d. 1814)
23 Aug 1810 -
1832
Frederik Christopher, greve af
(b. 1779 - d. 1832)
Trampe
1832 -
1840
Fredrik
Riis
(b. 1789 - d. 1845)
1840 -
1857
Karelius August
Arntzen
(b. 1802 - d. 1875)
1857 -
1894
Carl Fredrik
Motzfeldt
(b. 1808 - d. 1902)
1894 -
1907
Lars Otto Roll
Grundt
(b. 1843 - d. 1907)
1907 -
1921
Harald
Bothner
(b. 1850 - d. 1924)
1921 -
1940
Odd Sverressøn
Klingenberg
(b. 1871 - d. 1944)
1940 - 10 Oct 1940
Johan Cappelen
(1st time)
(b.
1889 - d. 1947)
(under occupation from 9 Apr 1940,
German
prisoner 1943-1945)
Oct 1940 - Jan 1942
Anton Frederik W. Jakhelln Prytz (b.
1878 - d. 1945)
(Quisling
governor)
1942 - 1945
Otto Johansen Grundtvig
(b. 1901 - d. 1966)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 - 18 Oct
1947
Johan Cappelen (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1948 -
1958
Ivar Skjånes
(b. 1888 - d. 1975)
1958 -
1963
Thor Skrindo
(b. 1910 - d.
1992)
1963 -
1974
Nils Kristian
Lysø
(b. 1905 - d. 1977)
1974 -
1986
Einar Hole
Moxnes
(b. 1921 - d. 2006)
1986 -
1993
Reidar
Due
(b. 1922 - d. 2021)
1986 - 1989
Roald Eriksen (1st
time)
(b. 1933)
(acting for Due)
1993 - 2011
Kåre Erling
Gjønnes
(b. 1942 - d. 2021)
1997 -
1998
Roald Eriksen (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting for Gjønnes)
1998 -
2000
Aage
Rundberget
(b. 1947)
(acting for Gjønnes)
2011 - 3 Mar
2015
Jørn Aksel
Krog
(b. 1948 - d. 2015)
13 Mar 2015 - 31 Dec 2017 Brit Skjelbred
(f)
(b. 1949)
(acting to 5 Feb 2016)
Søndmøre og Nordfjord
1675
Søndmøre og Nordfjord amt
created from parts of
Romsdals amt and Bergenhus amt.
1678
Part of Bergenhus amt.
Governor
12 Jun 1675 – 7 Jul 1678 Christian
Lindenov
(b. 1647 - d. 1692)
Svalbard: see under Norway
Telemark
19 Dec 1970 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1661
Bratsberg amt.
1 Jan
1919
Bratsberg amt becomes Telemark fylke.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Vestfold og Telemark fylke.
1 Jan 2024
Telemark fylke (restored).
Governors
1661 – 1662
Jørgen Jensen Bjelke
(b. 1621 - d.
1696)
13 Apr 1662 – 16 Jun 1669 Johan Frederik von
Marschalk (b. 1618 - d. 1679)
16 Jun 1669 – 15 Nov 1675 Preben von Ahnen
(b. 1606 - d. 1675)
1675 – 1691
Niels Sørensen Adeler
(b.
1628 - d. 1694)
26 Sep 1691 – 20 Apr 1711 Henrik Nilsen Adeler
(b.
1660 - d. 1718)
20 Apr 1711 – 2 Dec 1723 Jacob
Lindberg
(b. 1672 - d. 1723)
12 Aug 1724 – 3 Jan 1727 Michael Storm
(b. 1688 - d. 1727)
27 Jan 1727 – 21 Mar 1731 Christian Berg
(b. 1697 - d. 1731)
9 Apr 1731 – 30 Jan 1744 Henrik Essemann
(d. 1744)
1744 – 4 Jul 1764
Johan Frederik Brockenhuus von
(b. 1706 - d. 1764)
Løwenhielm
30 Jul 1764 – 20 Feb 1771 Frederik Georg Adeler
(1st time) (b. 1736 - d. 1810)
20 Feb 1771 – 3 Apr 1773 Peter Holm
(b. 1733 - d. 1817)
3 Apr 1773 – 2 Apr 1781 Frederik Georg
Adeler (2nd time) (s.a.)
2 Apr 1781 – 9 Jan 1788 Frederik
Moltke
(b. 1754 - d. 1836)
12 Mar 1788 – 10 Jan 1798 Jonas Ramus Petersen
(b.
1748 - d. 1804)
7 Mar 1798 – 26 Feb 1800 Otto Joachim Moltke
(b. 1770 - d. 1853)
26 Feb 1800 - 27 Apr 1803 Jens Andreas Selmer
(b. 1776 - d. 1830)
27 Apr 1803 – 24 Dec 1813 Severin
Løvenskiold
(b. 1777 - d. 1856)
24 Dec 1813 - 1838
Frederik Wilhelm baron Wedel
(b. 1787 - d. 1863)
Jarlsberg
1839 -
1846
Carl Valentin
Falsen
(b. 1787 - d. 1852)
1846 -
1877
Jørgen
Aall
(b. 1806 - d. 1894)
1877 -
1880
Niels Mathias
Rye
(b. 1824 - d. 1905)
1881 -
1889
Ulrik Frederik Christian Arneberg (b. 1829 - d.
1911)
1889 -
1898
Otto Benjamin Andreas
Aubert (b. 1841 - d.
1898)
1898 -
1902
Thomas von Westen
Engelhart (b.
1850 - d. 1905)
1902 -
1910
Viggo
Ullmann
(b. 1848 - d. 1910)
1910 -
1932
Guthorm Immanuel Hallager
(b. 1864 - d. 1932)
1933 -
1938
Olaf Hegland
(b. 1885 - d. 1939)
1939 - 10 Oct 1940
Kornelius Olai Bergsvik (1st time) (b. 1889 - d. 1975)
(under occupation from 5 May 1940)
Oct 1940 - 1945
Christen Knudsen
(b. 1873 - d.
1964)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 -
1959
Kornelius Olai Bergsvik (2nd time) (s.a.)
1959 -
1969
Tidemann F. Evensen
(b. 1905 - d. 1969)
Dec 1969 -
1973
Leif Hjørnevik
(b. 1910 - d. 1973)
1973 -
1976
Olav
Haukvik
(b. 1928 - d. 1992)
1976 -
1987
Oddvar
Berrefjord
(b. 1918 - d. 1999)
1987 -
1998
Kjell Gotfred
Bohlin
(b. 1928 - d. 2011)
1 Dec 1998 - 1 Jul 2004 Solveig
Sollie
(f)
(b. 1939)
2 Jul 2004 - 2 Jul 2006 Arne Malme
(1st time) (acting) (b. 1949)
3 Jul 2006 - 21 Jun 2018 Kari
Nordheim-Larsen
(f)
(b. 1948)
22 Jun 2018 - 31 Dec 2018 Arne Malme (2nd time)
(acting) (s.a.)
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Per Arne Lodding
Olsen
(b. 1961 - d. 2022)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023
part of Vestfold og Telemark
1 Jan 2024 -
Fred-Ivar Syrstad (acting)
(b. 1968)
Troms
15 Jan 1960 - 31 Dec 2019
|
1844
Tromsø amt.
1 Jan
1919
Troms fylke.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Troms og Finnmark fylke.
1 Jan
2024
Troms flyke (restored).
Governors (stiftamtmenn to 1919)
1844 -
1853
Anton Theodor
Harris
(b. 1804 - d. 1866)
1854 -
1857
Carl Frederik
Motzfeldt
(b. 1808 - d. 1902)
1858 -
1869
Mathias Bonsach Krogh Nannestad (b.
1815 - d. 1878)
1869 -
1889
Christian Collett
Kjerschow (b.
1821 - d. 1889)
1889 -
1914
Boye Christian Riis
Strøm
(b. 1847 - d. 1930)
1915 -
1920
Klaus Hoel
(b. 1865 - d.
1923)
1921 -
1928
Otto Backe
(b. 1874 - d.
1928)
1928 -
1938
Johannes Gerckens
Bassøe
(b. 1878 - d. 1962)
1938 - 20 Apr
1940
Gunnar Bjørn Nordbye
(b. 1897 - d. 1940)
20 Apr 1940 - 17 Jun 1941 Hans Julius Gabrielsen
(acting) (b. 1891 - d. 1965)
(under occupation from 8 Jun 1940)
20 Apr 1940 - Jun 1941
Hans Ougen Skotner
(b. 1903 -
d. 1987)
(acting for Gabrielsen)
1941? -
1945
Marcus Bull
(b. 1895 - d.
1974)
(Quisling governor)
1945 - 1946
Hans Ougen
Skotner (acting) (s.a.)
1946 -
1953
Arne
Aas
(b. 1890 - d. 1953)
1953 -
1977
Kristian Even Haug
(b. 1906 - d. 2000)
1977 -
1991
Martin
Buvik
(b. 1923 - d. 2018)
1991 - Aug
2000
Leif Arne
Heløe
(b. 1932)
Aug 2000 - Oct
2005 Vilgunn
Gregusson
(b. 1936)
(acting to 1 Mar 2002)
Oct 2005 - Sep 2014
Svein
Ludvigsen
(b. 1946)
Sep 2014 - 30 Oct 2017 Bård Magne Pedersen
(acting) (b. 1956)
30 Oct 2017 - 31 Dec 2019 Elisabeth Vik Aspaker
(f)
(b. 1962)
(1st time)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 part of
Troms
og Finnmark
1 Jan 2024
-
Elisabeth Vik Aspaker
(f)
(s.a.)
(2d time)
Troms og Finnmark
1 Jan
2020
Troms og Finnmark fylke (formed by merger of
Troms
and Finnmark).
1 Jan
2024
Dissolved back into Troms and Finnmark.
Governor
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Jan 2023 Elisabeth Vik
Aspaker
(f)
(b. 1962)
Tromsø stift
(Finmarkens amt, Nordlands amt, and
Tromsø amt)
14 Jun
1844
Tromsø stift
1 Jan
1919
Abolished.
Diocesan Governors
(stiftamtmenn)
1844 - 1869
the governors of Finmarkens amt
(s.a.)
1869 - 1918
the governors of Tromsø amt
(s.a.)
Trøndelag
Adopted 1 Jan 2018 |
1 Jan 2018
Trøndelag
fylke (formed by the merger
of Nord-Trøndelag and
Sør-Trøndelag).
Governor
1 Jan 2018 -
Frank
Jenssen
(b. 1969))
Trondhjem
1537
Trondhjems len.
26 Feb 1658
Swedish administration of
Trondheim (Trondheims län).
Return of
to
Norway is confirmed by the Treaty of Roskilde.
11 Dec
1658
Re-occupied by Norway.
27 May
1660
Formally restored to Norway by Treaty of Copenhagen.
19 Feb 1662
Trondhjems amt.
24 Sep 1804
Divided into Nordre
Trondhjems amt and
Søndre
Trondhjems amt.
Governors
(Lensherre) of Trondhjems
1631 -
1642
Oluf Parsberg
(b. 1599
- d. 1661)
1642 - 1656
Frederik Knudsen Urne
(b. 1601
- d. 1658)
1656 -
1658
Peder
Wibe
(b. 1596 - d. 1658)
18 Dec
1658 - 1661
Hans Hansen
Lillienskiold (interim)(b. 1601 - d. 1681)
Swedish Governor of
Trondheims Län
1658 - 1660
Claes
Nilsson Stiernsköld
(b. 1617 - d. 1676)
(Swedish governor [guvernör])
Governors of Trondhjems Amt
4 Jan 1662 - 1665
Claus von Ahlefeldt
(b. 1614 - d. 1674)
29 Dec 1665 - 22 Mar 1674 Ove Bjelke
(b. 1611 - d. 1674)
1674 - 3 Jun 1687
Joachim Frederik Wind (Vind)
(b. 1634 - d. 1687)
23 Jul 1687 - 23 Jul 1810 the
governors of Trondhjem stift
23 Jul 1810 - 1918
the governors of Søndre
Trondhjems amt
Trondhjem stift
(Nordre Trondhjems amt, Søndre Trondhjems amt,
part of Romsdals amt)
1687
Trondhjem stift.
1 Jan
1919
Abolished.
Diocesan Governors (stiftamtmenn)
23 Jul 1687 - 1700 Hans
Kaas
(b. 1640 - d.
1700)
9 Oct 1700 - 4 Dec 1722 Iver
von Ahnen
(b. 1659 - d. 1722)
25 Jan 1723 - 28 Jun 1726 Christian
Reitzer
(b. 1665 - d. 1736)
13 Dec 1726 - 14 Nov 1735 Jacob
Benzon
(b. 1688 - d. 1775)
9 Apr 1736 - 31 Jan 1744 Ulrik
Christian von Nissen
(b. 1691 - d. 1756)
18 Apr 1744 - 24 Jun 1747 Christian
de Stockfleth d.y. (b. 1715 - d.
1750)
5 Dec 1747 - 8 Jul 1766 Frederik
Rantzau
(b. 1747 - d. 1780)
8 Jul 1766 - 15 Jul 1772 Diderik
Otto von Grambow (b.
1732 - d. 1773)
15 Jul 1772 - 1772
Georg Christian Oeder
(acting) (b. 1728 - d. 1791)
24 Sep 1772 - 24 Feb 1783 Johan
Vibe von der Osten
(b. 1708 - d. 1800)
24 Feb 1783 - 4 Jan 1786 Wilhelm
Frimann Koren
(b. 1723 - d. 1788)
24 Mar 1786 - 5 Feb 1796 Thorkel
Jonsson Fjeldsted (b.
1741 - d. 1796)
8 Apr 1796 - 31 Mar 1802 Gebhard
greve Moltke-Huitfeldt (b. 1764 - d. 1851)
18 Jun 1802 - 8 Feb 1804 Frederik
Adeler d.y.
(b. 1754 - d. 1816)
24 Oct 1804 - 23 Jul 1810 Erik Must Angell
(b. 1744 - d. 1814)
23 Jul 1810 - 1918
the governors of Søndre
Trondhjems amt
Vest-Agder
12 Dec 1958 - 31 Dec
2019
|
1657
Lister amt.
1671
Lister og Mandals amt.
1 Jan
1919
Lister og Mandals amt becomes Vest-Agder fylke.
1 Jan
2020
Merged into Agder fylke.
Governors
1657
Hans
Juel
(b. 1615 - d. 1688)
1657 - 1664
Hans Juel (governor of
Mandal) (s.a.)
25 Mar 1658 - 1661
Lauritz Galtung
(b. c.1615 - d. 1661)
13 Apr 1662 - 16 Mar 1664 Christoffer Parsberg
(b.
1632 - d. 1671)
2 Aug 1664 - 1671
Mogens Friis
(b. 1623 - d. 1675)
27 Jan 1671 – 1675
Robert Thomas Hamilton
(d. 1677)
8 May 1677 – 1681?
Jens (Toller) Rosenheim (acting) (b. 1636 -
d. 1690)
1681 – 1683
Daniel Danielsen Knoff
(b. 1614 - d. 1687)
1683 – 23 Aug 1685
Ludvig Holgersen Rosenkrantz (b.
1625 - d. 1685)
1685 - 1692
Christian Stokfleth
(absent) (b. 1640 -
d. 1704)
12 Feb 1687 – 6 Sep 1692 Claus Røyem (vice
governor) (b. 1638 - d.
1692)
(acting [for Stokfleth])
4 Oct 1692 – 1699
Jørgen Hansen Burchardt
(b. c.1630 - d. 1700?)
9 Nov 1699 – 1 Jun 1711 Andreas Undall
(b. 1669 - d. 1728)
29 Nov 1711 – 25 Apr 1718 Povel Juel
(b. c.1673 - d. 1723)
23 Jun 1718 – 29 Apr 1745 Wilhelm Resen (Vilhelm
Reesen) (b. 1675 - d. 1745)
1745 – 19 Feb 1768 Jens
Stoud
(b. 1713 - d. 1768)
15 Mar 1768 – 18 Feb 1771 Magnus Theiste
(b. 1725 - d. 1791)
20 Feb 1771 – 3 Apr 1773 Frederik Georg
Adeler
(b. 1736 - d. 1810)
3 Apr 1773 – 20 Dec 1805 Peter Holm
(b. 1733 - d. 1817)
20 Dec 1805 – 7 May 1810 Hans Vilhelm
Cederfeld de Simonsen (b. 1737 - d. 1836)
29 May 1810 – 21 Apr 1814 Adam Ditlev
Wedell-Wedellsborg (b. 1782 - d. 1827)
21 Apr 1814 -
1815
Ulrik Frederik Anton de Schouboe (b. 1782 -
d. 1863)
1815 -
1836
Oluf Borch de
Schouboe
(b. 1777 - d. 1844)
1837 -
1846
Niels Arntzen
Sem
(b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1846 -
1852
Carl Valentin
Falsen
(b. 1787 - d. 1852)
1852 -
1859
Mathias Bille
Kjørboe
(b. 1794 - d. 1859)
1860 -
1871
Niels Petersen Vogt
(b. 1817 - d. 1894)
1871 -
1881
Jakob Krefting
Bonnevie
(b. 1814 - d. 1881)
1882 -
1889
Johan Christian Georg
Hvoslef (b. 1819 - d.
1889)
1889 -
1906
Hans Georg Jacob
Stang
(b. 1830 - d. 1907)
1907 -
1928
Daniel Bremer Juell
Koren
(b. 1858 - d. 1948)
1928 - 25 Jan 1942
Hagbarth Lund
(1st time)
(b. 1877 - d. 1963)
(under occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
1942 - 1945
Iver Leuch Elieson
(b. 1889 - d. 1968)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 -
1948
Hagbarth Lund (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1948 -
1954
Alf Frydenberg
(b. 1896 - d. 1989)
1954 -
1966
Lars
Evensen
(b. 1896 - d. 1969)
1966 -
1982
Bue
Fjermeros
(b. 1912 - d. 2000)
1982 -
1998
Oluf
Skarpnes
(b. 1932 - d. 2019)
Dec 1998 - 31 Dec 2015
Ann-Kristin Olsen
(f)
(b. 1945)
7 Feb 2006 - 28 Jul 2006
Lars Erik
Lyngdal
(b. 1945)
(acting for Olsen)
1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
Stein Arve
Ytterdahl
(b. 1951)
Vestfold
30 Jan 1970 - 31 Dec 2019
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19 Feb 1662
Brunla (Brunlaug) amt.
29 Sep 1671
Larvik arvelige grevskab
(hereditary county).
23 Nov
1673
Griffenfeldt (Griffenfeld) grevskab (hereditary
county)
established
26 May
1676
Griffenfeldt is confiscated by the Danish Crown and
renamed
Tønsberg grevskab. In 1678 it is sold to Ulrik
Fredrik Gyldenløve.
3 Jan 1684
Tønsberg is sold to the Count of Larvik, as Jarlsberg grevskab.
11 Nov 1805
Sold to the Danish Crown.
1821
Jarlsberg
and Larvik merged as Jarlsberg og Laurvigs amt.
1877
Jarlsberg
og Laurvigs amt renamed Jarlsberg og Larvik.
1 Jan
1919
Renamed Vestfold fylke.
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Merged into Vestfold og Telemark fylke.
1 Jan
2024
Vestfold fylke (restored).
Governor of Brunla (Brunlaug)
1662 - 29 Sep 1671
Holger
Vind
(b. 1623 - d. 1683)
Counts of Larvik (title Greva
av Laurvig)
29 Sep 1671 - 17 Apr 1704 Ulrik Fredrik Gyldenløve
(b. 1638 - d. 1704)
17 Apr 1704 - 18 Sep 1754 Ferdinand Anton
Danneskiold- (b. 1688 - d.
1754)
Laurvig
18 Sep 1754 - 12 Aug 1762 Frederik Ludvig
Danneskiold- (b. 1717 - d.
1762)
Laurvig
12 Aug 1762 - 9 Apr 1783 Christian Conrad
Danneskiold- (b. 1723 - d. 1783)
Laurvig
9 Apr 1783 - 9 Oct
1791 Christian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
(b. 1732 - d. 1791)
9 Oct 1791 - 11 Nov 1805 Frederik
Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (b. 1760 -
d. 1832)
11 Nov 1805 - 26 Aug 1817 the kings of Denmark
Count of Griffenfeldt (title
Greva av Griffenfeldt)
23 Nov 1673 - 26 May 1676 Peder (Schumacher)
Griffenfeldt (b. 1635 - d. 1699)
Counts of Tønsberg (title
Greva av Tønsberg)
26 May 1676 - 1678 the
king of Denmark
1678 - 3 Jan 1684 Ulrik
Fredrik Gyldenløve
(s.a.)
Counts of Jarlsberg (title
Greva av Jarlsberg)
3 Jan 1684 - 21 Dec 1717 Gustav Vilhelm
Wedel-Jarlsberg (b. 1641 - d. 1717)
21 Dec 1717 - 22 Sep 1738 Frederik Anton greve
Wedel- (b. 1694 - d.
1738)
Jarlsberg
22 Sep 1738 - 18 Nov 1776 Frederik
Christian Otto Wedel- (b. 1718 - d. 1776)
Jarlsberg
18 Nov 1776 - 7 Apr 1811 Anton Frederik
Wedel-Jarlsberg (b. 1748 - d. 1811)
7 Apr 1811 - 27 Aug 1840 Herman
Wedel Jarlsberg
(b. 1779 - d. 1840)
27 Aug 1840 - 23 Jun 1893 Peder Anker
Wedel-Jarlsberg (b. 1809 - d.
1893)
Governors
1821 -
1829
Georg Jacob
Bull
(b. 1785 - d. 1854)
1829 -
1833
Johan Henrik
Rye
(b. 1787 - d. 1868)
1833 -
1864
Ulrik Frederik
Cappelen
(b. 1797 - d. 1864)
1865 -
1882
Johan Christian Georg
Hvoslef (b. 1819 - d.
1889)
1882 -
1902
Carl Johan
Michelet
(b. 1826 - d. 1902)
1902 -
1905
Thomas von Westen
Engelhart (b.
1850 - d. 1905)
1905 -
1908
Ulrik Krohn
(b. 1867 - d.
1944)
1908 -
1924
Abraham
Berge
(b. 1851 - d. 1936)
1924 -
1938
Herman Meinich
(b. 1868 - d. 1948)
1938 - 1 Feb 1942
Johannes
Gerckens Bassøe (1st time)(b. 1878 - d. 1962)
(under
occupation from 9 Apr 1940)
1942 - 31 Dec 1943 Halvor
Pedersen Hektoen
(b. 1884 - d. 1960)
(Quisling
governor)
1 Jan 1944 - 1945
Christopher Andreas Hoxmark Lange (b. 1894 - d.
1989)
(Quisling
governor)
1945 -
1948
Johannes Gerckens Bassøe (2nd time)(s.a.)
1948 -
1958
Oscar Fredrik
Torp
(b. 1893 - d. 1958)
1958 -
1964
Gerhard Dahl
(b. 1905 - d. 1964)
(acting for Torp 1948-1958)
1964 -
1979
Olav Redvald Grove
(b. 1909 - d. 1997)
1979 -
1988
Odd
Vattekar
(b. 1918 - d. 1992)
1989 - 1 Apr 2010
Mona Røkke
(f)
(b. 1940 - d. 2013)
1 Apr 2010 - 1 Jun 2010 Bjørn
Strandli (acting)
(b. 1950)
1 Jun 2010 - Aug 2016 Erling
Lae
(b. 1947)
Aug 2016 - 31 Dec 2019 Per Arne
Lodding
Olsen
(b. 1961 - d. 2022)
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 part
of Vestfold og Telemark
1 Jan 2024 -
Fred-Ivar Syrstad (acting)
(b. 1968)
Vestfold og Telemark
Adopted 1 Jan 2020
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1 Jan
2020
Vestfold og Telemark fylke (formed by merger of
Vestfold
and
Telemark).
1 Jan
2024
Dissolved back into Vestfold and Telemark.
Governors
1 Jan 2020 - 18 Nov 2022 Per Arne Lodding
Olsen
(b. 1961 - d. 2022)
18 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2023 Fred-Ivar Syrstad
(acting)
(b. 1968)
Vestland
1 Jan
2020
Vestland fylke (formed by merger of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane).
Governor
1 Jan 2020 - 1 Jun 2022 Lars
Sponheim
(b. 1957)
1 Jun 2022 - 1 Sep 2022 Gunnar Ove
Haereid
(acting) (b.
1970)
1 Sep 2022
-
Liv Signe Navarsete
(f)
(b. 1958)
Viken
1 Jan
2020
Viken fylke (formed by merger of Buskerud,
Akershus, and Østfold).
1 Jan
2024
Dissolved back into Buskerud, Akershus,
and Østfold.
Governor
1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023 Valgerd Svarstad
Haugland (f) (b. 1956)
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