Carl I. Hagen
| Carl I. Hagen | |
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| Vice President of the Storting | |
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In office 12 September 2005 – 14 September 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Inge Lønning |
| Succeeded by | Øyvind Korsberg |
| Leader of the Progress Party | |
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In office 11 February 1978 – 5 October 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Arve Lønnum |
| Succeeded by | Siv Jensen |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament for Oslo |
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In office 18 October 1974 – 12 September 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Anders Lange |
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In office 14 September 1981 – 14 September 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 May 1944 Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Aamodt (1970–1975) Eli Hagen (1983–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Sunderland Technical College |
Carl Ivar Hagen (born 6 May 1944) is a Norwegian politician and former Vice President of the Storting, the Norwegian parliament. He was the leader of the Progress Party from 1978 until 2006, when he stepped down in favour of Siv Jensen. Under his leadership he was the undisputed leader and centre of the party, and in many ways personally controlled its ideology and policies.
Hagen has since been regarded by both political scientists, and political colleagues and rivals alike as one of the greatest politicians in Norwegian history, for his ability to build a hugely successful party up from scratch and significantly impact Norwegian politics. He has been described as the first post-modern politician in Norway. While ideologically classical liberal and partly conservative, his political style has been described as populist.
Hagen was born to CEO Ragnar Hagen (1908–1969) and accountant Gerd Gamborg (born 1914). He was named after his paternal grandfather, Carl, and his maternal grandfather, Ivar. He has two siblings, one younger, and one older sister. Hagen was before joining the Progress Party a passive member of the Young Conservatives, and according to him, both his parents voted for the Labour Party. According to Hagen himself and his secondary school classmates, he was relatively shy in his younger years. When he was seventeen years old, in 1961, he took work as an apprentice on the Norwegian America Line ship MS Foldenfjord. He achieved Examen artium in 1963. In 1964, he was conscripted in the Norwegian Army, and served as an engineer soldier at Eggemoen near Hønefoss, and Maukstadmoen in Troms.
After this, he left Norway for England. Originally wanting to become an engineer, he flunked mathematics in Sunderland and chose to study marketing and business studies in Newcastle instead, earning a Higher National Diploma in Business Studies in 1968. From being more reserved in his youngest days, he soon became a player in Northern English student politics. In 1967 he fought over the office of vice president of the National Union of Students against Jack Straw (later Labour Party MP and Secretary of State for Justice of the UK).
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