Andreas J. Hemma

Who was Andreas J. Hemma?

Andreas Johannesen Hemma was a Norwegian farmer and politician.

He was born at Hemma in Brøttum as a son of farmers Johannes Larsen Hemma and Kristine Biskopaasen. He took basic education, worked three years within commerce in Kristiania, then started working at the family farm which he inherited in 1893. In Ringsaker municipal council he was elected in 1898 and served for twenty years, and he was also a member of the school board.

He participated in his first parliamentary election in 1906, and was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway for the Coalition Party, from the constituency Nordre Hedemarken. His running mate E. Svartshoel was not elected, so that Hemma served as a deputy for Liberal Wollert Konow. In the 1909 election he narrowly failed re-election as deputy. The Coalition Party was no more, but Hemma had joined the Liberal Left Party. Svartshoel had joined the Conservative Party, and they stood against Konow. Svartshoel and Hemma lost the first round; having carried the municipalities Furnes and Nes but lost Ringsaker. There was a second round of voting, but before it took place, Svartshoel died and Konow was allowed to run unnoposed. In the 1912 election Hemma stood as deputy candidate, and won the first voting round together with his running mate Axel Krogvig. In the second round however, Konow won and carried Nordre Hedemarken. From 1915 to 1918 Hemma was a central board member of the Liberal Left Party.