Erling Wikborg | |
Office: | Leader of the Christian Democratic Party |
Term Start: | 26 April 1951 |
Term End: | 20 May 1955 |
Predecessor: | Nils Lavik |
Successor: | Einar Hareide |
Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start1: | 28 August 1963 |
Term End1: | 25 September 1963 |
Primeminister1: | John Lyng |
Predecessor1: | Halvard Lange |
Successor1: | Halvard Lange |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1894 |
Birth Place: | Drammen, Norway |
Death Place: | Oslo, Norway |
Party: | Christian Democratic |
Erling Wikborg (5 November 1894 - 6 April 1992) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1945, and was re-elected from Oslo on two occasions.
Wikborg held a number of other prominent posts. He was the second leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 1951 to 1955, and a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1965 and from 1967 to 1970. From August to September 1963 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs during the short-lived centre-right Cabinet of John Lyng.
A lawyer by profession, he was born in Drammen, graduated with a cand.jur. degree in 1918, and studied international law in France and England in 1922 and 1923. Wikborg died on 6 April 1992 at the age of 97.