Mathias Sommerhielm

Mathias Otto Leth Sommerhielm (Kolding, Denmark, 22 August 1764 – Stockholm, Sweden, 15 November 1827) was a Danish9-Norwegian politician.

Biography

Sommerhielm was born in Kolding, Denmark. He graduated in law from the University of Copenhagen in1782 before moving to Christiania. After Denmark's loss of Norway to Sweden in 1813, he served as First Minister from 1815 to 1822, a position assigned to the most prominent cabinet minister at the time. In 1822, he became Prime Minister of Norway, an office located in Stockholm. He held the office until 1827, when the seat was vacated.

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• Biography

Heads of government of Norway First Ministers, 1814–1873 Haxthausen Rosenkrantz Sommerhielm Collett Krog Vogt Petersen F. Stang Prime Ministers, 1873–1905 F. Stang Selmer Schweigaard Sverdrup E. Stang Steen E. Stang Hagerup Steen Blehr Hagerup Prime Ministers, 1905–1940 Michelsen Løvland Knudsen Konow Bratlie Knudsen Halvorsen Blehr Halvorsen Berge Mowinckel Lykke Hornsrud Mowinckel Kolstad Hundseid Mowinckel Nygaardsvold WWII 1940–1945 Nygaardsvold (Prime Minister in exile, 1940–1945) Quisling (Prime Minister, 1940 coup) Christensen (Chairman of the Administrative Council, 1940) Terboven (German Commissioner for Norway) Quisling (Minister President, 1942–1945) Prime Ministers, 1945– Gerhardsen Torp Gerhardsen Lyng Gerhardsen Borten Bratteli Korvald Bratteli Nordli Brundtland Willoch Brundtland Syse Brundtland Jagland Bondevik Stoltenberg Bondevik Stoltenberg Solberg