Vidkunn Hveding
Vidkunn Hveding was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, and the Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1981–1983. Hveding was born in Orkdal Municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, 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. He died in Tysfjord Municipality in 2001.