List of County Governors of Trøndelag

This is a list of the County Governors of Trøndelag county in Norway. The office of County Governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway. The title was Amtmann (before 1919) and then Fylkesmann (after 1919).

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The county called Trondhjems stiftamt (later Trondhjems amt) was established by the King in 1662, shortly after the area was re-conquered by the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, taking it back from the Kingdom of Sweden. The seat of the amt was in the city of Trondheim. On 24 September 1804, the county was divided by royal resolution into two counties. The county of Nordre Trondhjems amt (renamed Nord-Trøndelag in 1919) was in the north and the county of Søndre Trondhjems amt (renamed Sør-Trøndelag in 1919) was in the south. These two counties existed until 1 January 2018 when the two counties were merged once again into the new Trøndelag county. The new county governor for Trøndelag will continue to live and work in the town of Steinkjer.

The county governor is the government's representative in the county. The governor carries out the resolutions and guidelines of the Storting and Government. This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries. Secondly, the county governor also monitors the activities of the municipalities and is the appeal body for many types of municipal decisions.

List of County Governors

From 1662 until 1804, the Trondhjems amt county had the following governors. From 1804-2017, the county was split and so each of those counties had their own county governor (see the lists for those counties). Since 2018, the counties were reunited with one county governor once again.

County Governors of Trøndelag [1][2][3]
StartEndName
16621665Claus von Ahlefeldt
(1617–1676)
16651674Ove Bjelke
(1614–1674)
16741687Joachim Frederik Wind
(1634–1687)
16871700Hans Kaas
(1640–1700)
17001722Iver von Ahnen
(1657–1722)
17231726Christian Reitzer
(1665–1736)
17261735Jacob Benzon
(1688–1775)
17361744Christian Ulrich von Nissen-Benzon
(1691–1756)
17441747Christian de Stockfleth
(1715–1750)
17471766Frederik Rantzau
(1727–1780)
17661772Diderik Otto von Grambow
(1732–1773)
17721772Georg Christian Oeder
(1728–1791)
17721783Johan Vibe von der Osten
(1708–1800)
17831786Wilhelm Frimann Koren
(1723–1788)
17861796Thorkild Fjeldsted
(1741–1796)
17961802Gebhard Moltke
Greve of Moltke
(1764–1851)
18021804Frederik Adeler d.y.
(1754–1816)
For the County Governors of this area from 1804-2017, see
*List of County Governors of Nord-Trøndelag
*List of County Governors of Sør-Trøndelag
2018presentFrank Jenssen
(born 1969)

References
  1. Cahoon, Ben (2000). "Norwegian Counties". Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. "Stiftamtmenn, amtmenn og fylkesmenn 1814-1994" (in Norwegian). regjeringen.no. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. Berg, Ole T., ed. (2016-06-13). "Fylkesmenn og amtmenn (stiftamtmenn) siden 1671". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
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