Harald Bothner

{{Short description|Norwegian politician (1850–1924)}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Harald_Bothner.jpg | office = County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag | term_start = 1 November 1907 | term_end = 30 June 1921 | monarch = Haakon VII | prime_minister = Jørgen Løvland Gunnar Knudsen Wollert Konow Jens Bratlie Otto B. Halvorsen Otto Blehr | predecessor = Lars O. R. Grundt | successor = Odd Klingenberg | office2 = Minister of Justice | term_start2 = 27 November 1905 | term_end2 = 23 October 1907 | prime_minister2 = Christian Michelsen | predecessor2 = Edvard H. Bull | successor2 = Johan Bredal | office3 = Minister of Auditing | term_start3 = 7 June 1905 | term_end3 = 27 November 1905 | prime_minister3 = Christian Michelsen | predecessor3 = Gunnar Knudsen | successor3 = Christian Michelsen | office4 = Member of the Council of State Division | term_start4 = 11 March 1905 | term_end4 = 7 June 1905 | alongside4 = Edvard H. Bull | prime_minister4 = Christian Michelsen | predecessor4 = Birger Kildal Jacob Schøning | successor4 = ''Position abolished'' | office5 = Member of the Norwegian Parliament | term_start5 = 1 January 1903 | term_end5 = 31 December 1906 | constituency5 = Nordre Trondhjem | birth_date = {{birth date|1850|11|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Fredrikshald, Østfold, Sweden-Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|10|24|1850|11|30|df=y}} | death_place = | party = Liberal }} '''Harald Bothner''' (30 November 1850 – 24 October 1924) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party, born in Halden.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Harald Bothner|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo|editor=Henriksen, Petter|url=http://www.snl.no/Harald_Bothner|language=Norwegian|accessdate=2010-05-19}}</ref> He was a district stipendiary magistrate by profession.<ref name=B>{{cite web|url=http://www.regjeringen.no/en/the-government/previous-governments/the-structure-of-the-registry/alphabetical-register/b.html?id=410100|title=Det norske statsråd 1814-: III Personer 1814-|publisher=Government.no|accessdate=2010-05-19}}</ref> From 1878 to 1880 he worked as a solicitor in Sarpsborg, before moving to Halden. Bothner became a District Attorney in Stavanger in 1889, and a judge in Stjør- og Verdal district court in 1896.<ref name=snl/> He entered into national politics in 1903, when he was elected a member of the Norwegian parliament for northern Trondheim for the period 1903–06.<ref name=snl/> Bothner was appointed member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm in 1905, and served as Minister of Auditing later the same year.<ref name=B/> On 27 November 1905 he was made Minister of Justice in the coalition government of Christian Michelsen, a position he held until the cabinet's dissolution in 1907.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regjeringen.no/en/the-government/previous-governments/the-structure-of-the-registry/governments/during-and-after-the-dissolution-of-the-/ministries-1905---1940/ministries-1905---1940/christian-michelsens-government-1905---1.html?id=507098|title=Christian Michelsen's Government|publisher=Government.no|accessdate=2010-05-19}}</ref> After retiring from the government he was County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag until 1921.<ref name=snl/>

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==Further reading== *{{cite book|last=Bothner|first=Harald|editor=Harald Hals|title=Dagbøker fra 1905 ''(Diaries from 1905)''|year=1987|publisher=Tapir|location=Trondhjem|isbn=82-519-0804-3}}

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before = Edvard Hagerup Bull}} {{s-ttl|title = Minister of Justice and the Police|years=November 1905–October 1907}} {{s-aft|after = Johan Olaf Bredal}} {{s-civ}} {{s-bef|before = Lars Otto Roll Grundt}} {{s-ttl|title = County Governor of Søndre Trondhjem|years=1907–1921 (County re-named Sør-Trøndelag in 1919)}} {{s-aft|after = Odd Sverressøn Klingenberg}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bothner, Harald}} Category:1850 births Category:1924 deaths Category:Government ministers of Norway Category:Members of the Storting 1904–1906 Category:Ministers of justice of Norway Category:Politicians from Halden