Arnold Hazeland

Who is Arnold Hazeland?

Arnold Mathew Johan Philip Hazeland was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Birkrem as a son of language teacher John Hazeland and his wife Serine Larsen Vigesaa. He finished his secondary education in 1876, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1881. He was a deputy judge, junior solicitor and then attorney in Kristiania from 1890 to 1907. In 1893 he married Anna Schjølberg, a sister of attorney Rasmus Schjølberg.

He became an assessor in Trondhjem in 1907, and served as district stipendiary magistrate in Søndre Gudbrandsdalen from 1915 to 1919, then Supreme Court Justice from 1919 to 1929.

He was also elected to Kristiania city council in 1898. In the 1909 parliamentary election he stood for his party in the constituency Strinden, and was pitted against Liberal candidate P. A. O. Fjermstad, and finished second with 1,052 against 1,096 votes. There was a second round of voting, in which the Conservative candidate, Even Larsen Loreng, edged out the other two with Hazeland in third. In 1912 he won the first round against both Fjermstad and Loreng, but Fjermstad prevailed in the second round. In 1915 he stood in the constituency Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik og Kongsvinger, but Axel Thallaug carried the constituency already in the first round.