P . A . Holm
Who was the chair of Free-minded Liberal Party from 1925 to 1930?
Free-minded Liberal Party The Free-minded Liberal Party ( ) was a political party in Norway founded in 1909 by the conservative-liberal faction of the Liberal Party . The party cooperated closely with the Conservative Party and participated in several short-lived governments , including two headed by Free-minded Prime Ministers . In the 1930s the party changed its name to the Free-minded Peoples Party ( ) and initiated cooperation with nationalist groups . The party contested its last election in 1936 , and was not reorganised in 1945 . History . The Free-minded Liberal Party was founded in March 1909 under influence of Norways first independent Prime Minister , Christian Michelsen of the Liberal Party , after around a third of the Liberal parliamentary representatives had been excluded from a reconstitution of the Liberal Party in 1908 . The party was founded in protest against the increasingly radical course of the consolidated Liberal Party , which the partys right wing considered to conflict with the partys traditionally liberal ideology . Other co-founders of the party included Abraham Berge , Wollert Konow ( SB ) , Sofus Arctander , Harald Bothner , Magnus Halvorsen , Ernst Sars , Ola Thommessen and Fridtjof Nansen . The party initiated a close cooperation with the Conservative Party , and won 23 seats in the 1909 parliamentary election , after which the party formed a government together with the Conservatives with Wollert Konow as Prime Minister . The government did however not live up to the expectations of either Michelsen or the Conservatives , and the Conservatives withdrew from the government in 1911 . Konows government came to an abrupt end in early 1912 after he declared his sympathies for the rural language form Landsmål in a speech to the Agrarian Youth Association , during the height of the Norwegian language conflict . The speech caused an uproar among militant Riksmål-supporters , especially among the Conservatives , but also in his own party , eventually leading to Konows replacement as Prime Minister ( by Conservative Jens Bratlie ) . Notably individualist in orientation , the party emphasised intellectual freedom . The first woman meeting as a parliamentary representative in Norwegian history was the Free-mindeds Anna Rogstad in 1911 , two years before full suffrage for women was granted in Norway . The conflicts around Konows failed government caused a major defeat for the Conservative-Free-minded alliance in the 1912 election , and reduced the Free-minded to insignificance with only four seats . The party organisation was increasingly merged into the Conservative organisation after 1912 , until election gains and coalition victories in 1921 and 1924 sparked desires for a more independent party . The conflict resulted in numerous name-changes of the various Conservative local and regional chapters in attempts to signal a broader conservative-liberal profile . The two parties participated in several governments together in the 1920s , until they started drifting increasingly apart towards the end of the decade . In 1931 , the Free-minded changed their name to the Free-minded Peoples Party , and was subsequently reduced to a single representative from Trondheim in the 1933 election . It contested its last election in 1936 in electoral cooperations with the Fatherland League and Nasjonal Samling ( NS ) , failing to secure a single seat . By then most of the local and regional chapters had returned to or joined the Conservatives . The party was not reorganised in 1945 . The first non-Labour Prime Minister after the war , John Lyng , was a member of the party before he joined the Conservatives in 1938 . Historian and journalist Hans Fredrik Dahl has described the Progress Party as a spiritual successor to the party . Party leaders . The party leaders were Abraham Berge ( 1909–1910 ) , Magnus Halvorsen ( 1910–1912 ) , William Martin Nygaard ( 1912–1915 ) , Erik Enge ( 1915–1918 ) , Bernt Holtsmark ( 1918–1922 ) , Oluf Christian Müller ( 1922–1924 ) , Karl Wefring ( 1924–1925 ) , P . A . Holm ( 1925–1930 ) , Anton Wilhelm Brøgger ( acting , 1930–1931 ) Einar Greve ( 1931–1933 ) , Rolf Thommessen ( 1933–1936 ) , Rudolf Ræder ( 1936–1937 ) and Trygve Swensen ( 1937–1939 ) . Election results . - * Results from joint lists with the Conservative Party . Vote indicated here is shared between the parties , while seats indicated represent the Free-minded Liberal Partys share alone ( including seats won by the party on separate lists ) . - ** Results from separate lists of the Free-minded Liberal Party , contested in some constituencies . - *** Results from joint lists with the Fatherland League and Nasjonal Samling .