Jens Hundseid

Jens Hundseid
Hundseid in 1935.
20th Prime Minister of Norway
In office
14 March 1932 – 3 March 1933
MonarchHaakon VII
Preceded byPeder Kolstad
Succeeded byJohan Ludwig Mowinckel
Minister of Agriculture
In office
14 March 1932 – 3 March 1933
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byIvar Kirkeby-Garstad
Succeeded byHåkon Five
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office
1 January 1925 – 4 December 1945
ConstituencyTelemark (1925–1936)
Buskerud (1937–1945)
Leader of the Agrarian Party
In office
1930–1938
Preceded byErik Enge
Succeeded byNils Trædal
Personal details
Born
Jens Valentinsen Hundseid

(1883-05-06)6 May 1883
Vikedal, Rogaland, Sweden-Norway
Died2 April 1965(1965-04-02) (aged 81)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyAgrarian
Nasjonal Samling
Spouse
Martha Eknes
(m. 1912)
Children2
ProfessionPolitician

Jens Valentinsen Hundseid[1] (6 May 1883 – 2 April 1965) was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party. He was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1924 to 1940 and the 20th prime minister of Norway from 1932 to 1933.

Hundseid felt forced to join Nasjonal Samling who supported the Nazis in 1940, a choice he later called "cowardly". In the legal purge in Norway following World War II he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Pardoned in 1949 he lived a recluse in Oslo until his death in 1965.