Office of the Attorney General of Norway is a body subordinate to the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister

Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister

The Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister is a political and bureaucratic office that assists the Cabinet of Norway and the Prime Minister of Norway in the leadership of the Cabinet and Government. It has since 2005 been led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg . Minister and Chief of Staff is Karl...

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It was established in 1816. Its task is to assist the executive branch of government with judicial questions, and to conduct civil legal trials.

The office has 46 employees, of whom 34 are jurists. The current Attorney General of Norway is Sven Ole Fagernæs

Sven Ole Fagernæs

Sven Ole Fagernæs is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He was born in Oslo, and was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1973. From 1976 he worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway...

, whereas the assisting Attorney General is Tolle Stabell. The headquarters are in Oslo

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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List of Attorneys General of Norway

This is a list of the heads of the Office of the Attorney General of Norway:

• 1816–1820 : Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Sr.
  Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Sr.
  Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was a Norwegian jurist, part of an old noble family.-Personal life:...
  
  
• 1820–1825 : Jonas Anton Hielm
• 1822–1830 : Niels Aars
• 1830–1837 : H. C. Petersen
• 1837–1839 : Fredrik Stang
  Fredrik Stang
  Fredrik Stang was the Norwegian Minister of Justice 1912–1913. He was chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee 1922–1940.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as the son of Emil Stang and his wife Adelaide Pauline Berg...
  
  
• 1839–1842 : Eskild Bruun
• 1842–1859 : I. W. Skjelderup
• 1859–1870 : Bernhard Dunker
• 1870–1873 : H. C. H. Grønn
• 1873–1893 : Christian Lasson
• 1893–1904 : Johannes Bergh
• 1904–1917 : Karl Lous
• 1917–1923 : Annæus J. Schjødt
• 1924–1939 : Kristen Johanssen
  Kristen Johanssen
  Kristen Johanssen was a Norwegian jurist.He took the cand.jur. degree in 1892 and after studying abroad he settled in Kristiania in 1896. After a period as assessor in Oslo City Court from 1897 to 1899 he took the lawyer's licence...
  
  
• 1939–1941 : Valentin Voss
  Valentin Voss
  Valentin Voss was a Norwegian lawyer and civil servant.He took the cand.jur. degree in 1903 and the lawyer's license in 1909. From 1922 to 1930 he was the State Conciliator of Norway. From 1927 he was also a defender in Eidsivating Court of Appeal...
  
  
• 1941–1945 : German occupation of Norway
• 1945–1962 : Henning Bødtker
  Henning Bødtker
  Henning Bremer Bødtker was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He was the Attorney General of Norway from 1945 to 1962...
  
  
• 1962–1972 : Hans Methlie Michelsen
  Hans Methlie Michelsen
  Hans Methlie Michelsen is a Norwegian judge.He was born in Bergen. During the German occupation of Norway he partook in the Norwegian resistance. He was arrested in November 1943, sent to Buchenwald in January 1944, then sent to Sennheim and back to Buchenwald...
  
  
• 1972–1993 : Bjørn Haug
  Bjørn Haug
  Bjørn Haug is a Norwegian judge.He was born in Oslo. He worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1959 to 1962 and in the private company Christiania Spigerverk from 1962 to 1972. He was then the Attorney General of Norway from 1972 to 1993, and also served as the State...
  
  
• 1993–present : Sven Ole Fagernæs
  Sven Ole Fagernæs
  Sven Ole Fagernæs is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He was born in Oslo, and was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1973. From 1976 he worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway...