Benjamin Vogt (politician)

Paul Benjamin Vogt (16 May 1863 – 1 January 1947) was a Norwegian politician of the Conservative Party who served as a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1903–1904, Minister of Trade and Minister of Auditing 1904–1905. In 1905, he was Norway's emissary to Stockholm to negotiate Norwegian independence from Sweden. He also served as the Norway's minister in London 1910–1934.

Benjamin Vogt
Norwegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1910–1934
Prime MinisterWollert Konow
Jens Bratlie
Gunnar Knudsen
Otto B. Halvorsen
Otto Blehr
Abraham Berge
J. L. Mowinckel
Christopher Hornsrud
Peder Kolstad
Jens Hundseid
Preceded byJohannes Irgens
Succeeded byErik Colban
Minister of Trade
In office
1 September 1904  11 March 1905
Prime MinisterFrancis Hagerup
Preceded byJacob Schøning
Succeeded bySofus Arctander
Minister of Auditing
In office
1 September 1904  11 March 1905
Prime MinisterFrancis Hagerup
Preceded byBirger Kildal
Succeeded byGunnar Knudsen
Member of the Council of State Division
In office
22 October 1903  1 September 1904
Serving with Christian Michelsen
Preceded byElias Sunde
Sigurd Ibsen
Succeeded byBirger Kildal
Jacob Schøning
Personal details
Born
Paul Benjamin Vogt

(1863-05-16)16 May 1863
Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Sweden-Norway
Died1 January 1947(1947-01-01) (aged 83)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Andrea Severine Heyerdahl
(
m. 1888)

Personal life

He was born in Kristiansand as a son of politician Niels Petersen Vogt (1817–1894) and Kaia Ancher Arntzen (1819–1870). He was a brother of editor Nils Vogt (1859–1927) and a second cousin of Johan Herman Lie Vogt, Nils Collett Vogt and Ragnar Vogt.[1]

He completed his examen artium at Oslo Cathedral School in 1880 before studying law at university.[1]

In April 1888 he married Andrea Severine "Daisy" Heyerdahl (1864–1946), daughter of a physician.[1] They had several children. Stener Vogt became a businessman and consul.[2] Their daughter Alethe Heyerdahl Vogt married businessman Fredrik C. Blom.[3] Their daughter Daisy Vogt was the first wife of Diderich H. Lund.[4] Another daughter Marie Leigh "Leiken" Vogt was the wife of Ferdinand Schjelderup, then a cohabitant with Emil Stang, Jr.[5]

gollark: It's easy to say that if you are just vaguely considering that, running it through the relatively unhurried processes of philosophizing™, that sort of thing. But probably less so if it's actually being turned over to emotion and such, because broadly speaking people reaaaallly don't want to die.
gollark: Am I better at resisting peer pressure than other people: well, I'd *like* to think so, but so would probably everyone else ever.
gollark: Anyway, I have, I think, reasonably strong "no genocide" ethics. But I don't know if, in a situation where everyone seemed implicitly/explicitly okay with helping with genocides, and where I feared that I would be punished if I either didn't help in some way or didn't appear supportive of helping, I would actually stick to this, since I don't think I've ever been in an environment with those sorts of pressures.
gollark: Maybe I should try arbitrarily increasing the confusion via recursion.
gollark: If people are randomly assigned (after initial mental development and such) to an environment where they're much more likely to do bad things, and one where they aren't, then it seems unreasonable to call people who are otherwise the same worse from being in the likely-to-do-bad-things environment.I suppose you could argue that how "good" you are is more about the change in probability between environments/the probability of a given real world environment being one which causes you to do bad things. But we can't check those with current technology.

References

  1. Bratberg, Terje. "Benjamin Vogt". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  2. Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1948). "Vogt, Stener". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 572. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  3. Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1948). "Blom, Fredrik". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 62. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  4. Aarek, Hans Eirik. "Diderich H Lund". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  5. Bjørgum, Jorunn. "Emil Stang". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Johannes Irgens
Norwegian Minister to the United Kingdom
1910–1934
Succeeded by
Erik Colban
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