Lars Roar Langslet

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Born5 March 1936
Nes, Buskerud
Died18 January 2016 (Age 79)
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materThe Norwegian Armed Forces Intelligence School, Oslo University
ReligionCatholic
Member ofHarvard/International Seminar/1963
PartyConservative Party (Norway)

Lars Roar Langslet was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He attended the 1969 Bilderberg meeting a few months before being elected to parliament, and also attended the 1970 Bilderberg meeting.

Education

During his conscription, Langslet completed the Norwegian Armed Forces' Russian course; a large proportion of those who have completed this (intelligence connected) course hold key positions in business, public administration and academia. He went on to study Intellectual history at the University of Oslo. As a student, Langslet was chairman of the Norwegian Students' Society for a period in 1960. He was also editor of the liberal-conservative journal Minerva from 1957 to 1968.

Langslet converted to Catholicism in 1963.[1]

Career

His political career started as a member of parliament for Oslo. He sat in parliament for 20 years, from 1969 to 1989. Here he was chairman of the Church and education committee 1973-1980. Langslet was also a member of the Conservative Party's Central Board from 1970,[2] and one of the party's most important ideologues[3].

Langslet was minister of culture and science in Kåre Willoch's government from 1981 to 1986.

Other

He wrote thirty books, biographies and political essay collections and countless articles and columns.[4]

From 1989 to 1990 Langslet was culture director in Oslo and then a writer in Aftenposten from 1990. He was awarded a state scholarship in 1997.[2]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/19699 May 196911 May 1969Denmark
Hotel Marienlyst
Elsinore
The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants
Bilderberg/197017 April 197019 April 1970Switzerland
Hotel Quellenhof
Bad Ragaz
the 19th Bilderberg meeting, in Switzerland.
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