Gabriel Andreas Stoud Platou (1858 – 6 June 1911) was a Norwegian banker and politician for the Conservative Party.

Personal life

He was as a son of banker Christian Fredrik Stoud Platou (1824–1883), brother of Christian Emil Stoud Platou

Christian Emil Stoud Platou

Christian Emil Stoud Platou was a Norwegian railroad director and politician for the Conservative Party.-Personal life:...

 and Waldemar Stoud Platou

Waldemar Stoud Platou

Waldemar Stoud Platou was a Norwegian businessperson. He had a long career in the brewery industry.-Personal life:He was born in Furnes as the son of banker Christian Fredrik Stoud Platou and Elise Sem...

, grandnephew of Ludvig Stoud Platou

Ludvig Stoud Platou

Ludvig Stoud Platou was a Danish-Norwegian educator, historical and geographical writer, politician and State Secretary.-Personal life:...

, uncle of Karen Platou

Karen Platou

Karen Platou was a Norwegian businesswoman and a politician for the Conservative Party. Platou was the country's first woman to be elected Member of Parliament....

 and granduncle of Lars T. Platou

Lars T. Platou

Lars Tokstad Sem Platou was a Norwegian electrical engineer and politician for the Conservative Party. He served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament, was the deputy leader of his party from 1972 to 1978...

. He was also a second cousin of Oscar

Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou

Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was a Norwegian jurist. After fourteen years as an assessor in Oslo City Court from 1876 to 1890, he was a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1890 to 1920; the last five years while suffering from blindness.-Personal life:He was born in Christiania as the...

, Lars

Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou

Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou was a Norwegian psychiatrist.He was born in Bergen as a son of burgomaster Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou and his wife Christence Dorothea Plade Nielsen...

 and Valborg Platou.

Together with Ingeborg Sophie Falck (1864–1958) he had the sons F. S. Platou

F. S. Platou

Frithjof Stoud Platou was a Norwegian architect. He worked for the international architects Lars Backer and Erich Mendelsohn before he established his own architectural firm in Oslo...

 and Ragnar Stoud Platou

Ragnar Stoud Platou

-Personal life:Platou was born to the banker Gabriel Andreas Stoud Platou and his wife Ingeborg Sophie Falck . His younger brother was the architect Frithjof Stoud Platou...

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Career

He took over his father's bank in 1885, and was the director of Hamar Sparebank until his death. He was also a board member of Volund and Hamar Dampskibsselskab, and of the supervisory commission on railways in the county. From 1902 to 1097 he served as the mayor of Hamar

Hamar

is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...

. He also participated in several national elections, being a deputy member of the Parliament of Norway from 1903 to his death. He was the deputy candidate ("running mate") for Axel Thallaug

Axel Thallaug

Axel Andreas Thallaug was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party from Lillehammer. He received his law degree in 1889. He was a local politician from 1894 to 1938, and a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1903 to 1918. He was a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel...

 in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1906

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1906

-Results:-References:**...

 in the single-member urban constituency Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik og Kongsvinger. Thallaug and Platou, who in this particular election stood for the Coalition Party, edged out Labour's candidates with 1,284 against 1,045 votes. In the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1909

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1909

-Results: Liberal Left Party is part of coalition with Conservative Party-References:***...

 Platou ran against Thallaug in Hamar. As the conservative vote was split, Platou failed to carry the vote in his hometown, but lost to Labour's Petter Nilssen

Petter Nilssen

Petter Nilssen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Lillehammer. Nilssen was an active socialist already in the 1880s, and was involved in the early labour movement as a founder of worker's associations . He founded worker's associations, and later social democratic...

 with 626 against 704 votes. Platou only stood in his hometown, and Thallaug carried the three other cities in the constituency. There was thus a second round face-off between Thallaug and Nilssen, where Thallaug and his deputy Platou won comfortably. Before the end of the term, Platou contracted an illness and died in June 1911 in Kristiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

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