Vidkunn Hveding


Vidkunn Hveding was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, and the Minister of Petroleum and Energy 1981–1983. Hveding was born in Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, and was a civil engineer by profession. He was married to Marie Palmstrøm from 1948 to 1963, and remarried in 1963 to Tone Barth, the sister of Professor of Social Anthropology Fredrik Barth.