Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer
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During the Nazi occupation of Norway, Elisabeth Schweigaard worked with the Norwegian resistance movement "Hjemmefronten" against the Nazi collaborationist Quisling regime. Elisabeth was then just a teenager.
Personal life
She was born in Kristiania to Niels Anker Stang Schweigaard (1884–1955) and his wife Betty Reimers (1886–1968).[1] She had two older sisters, and was a great-granddaughter of Tellef Dahll Schweigaard[2] and great-granduncle of Anton Martin Schweigaard. Born as Ragnhild Elisabeth Schweigaard, she married law professor Knut Sejersted Selmer. Through him she was a daughter-in-law of Ernst W. Selmer.[3]
Career
In 1941, she was expelled from Oslo Cathedral School because of anti-NS behaviour. She enrolled as a student in 1945 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1949.[1] During the German occupation of Norway she had been involved in the Norwegian resistance, in illegal radio broadcasting.[4] After graduation, she started working as a secretary in the Ministry of Justice and the Police, but then worked as an attorney from 1950 to 1955. She then returned to the Ministry of Justice, being promoted to assisting secretary in 1962. On the local political level, Selmer had been a member of Oslo city council during the term 1951–1955.[1]
In 1965, she was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police as a part of the centre-right cabinet of Per Borten, the first woman to hold this position.[5] She left the Minister of Justice position on 3 October 1970, when replaced by Egil Endresen. She then served as a Supreme Court Justice from 1971 to 1990, having been appointed in 1970.[1]
Schweigaard Selmer was a member of many boards and councils. She was vice president of the Norse Federation from 1975 to 1978, and a long-time board member. She also sat on the boards of Oslo City Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and Norway's Resistance Museum. A Riksmål proponent, she was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. She was proclaimed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1980,[1] and has the Defence Medal 1940 – 1945.[3]
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