Background
WIKBORG, ERLING was born on November 5, 1894 in Drammen, Norway.
Diplomat lawyer minister politician
WIKBORG, ERLING was born on November 5, 1894 in Drammen, Norway.
University of Oslo; University of Montpellier, France. Oxford University, England. Delegate, United Nations, 1952, 1954 and 1956.
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. 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 candidate.jur. degree in 1918, and studied international law in France and England in 1922 and 1923.
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.