Albert Fredrik Eggen

Who was Albert Fredrik Eggen?

Albert Fredrik Eggen was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Liberal Party.

He was born at Østborg in Levanger landsogn as a son of farmer and petty officer Martin Gunerius Eggen and his wife Karen Bergitte Maritvold. He graduated from middle school in 1896, Mære Agricultural School in 1896 and the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1900. He was the county agronomist in Nordre Trondhjems Amt from September 1900. He was the county secretary for agriculture from 1919. In 1910 he bought the farm Forset in Stod, where he later lived. He was a board member of Norske Melkeprodusenters Landsforbund from 1927 to 1928 and Trøndelag Melkesentral from 1930 to 1932. From 1926 he was a supervisory council member of the Royal Norwegian Society for Development.

He was elected as a member of Stod municipal council, and served as mayor from 1923 to 1925 and 1938 to 1940. In 1938 he chaired the county council, which at that time consisted of the mayors.

In 1915 he stood for election to the Parliament of Norway in the constituency of Snaasen for the Norwegian Agrarian Association, at the time a caucus within the Liberal Party.