page_title: Andreas Tostrup Urbye
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Andreas Tostrup Urbye / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905. Norwegian and Swedish delegates met in the Swedish city of Karlstad to negotiate the terms of the dissolution. In the picture from the left: Karl Gustaf Staaf (Sweden), Fredrik Wachtmeister (Sweden), secretary Berg, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (Sweden), Christian Lundeberg (Sweden), secretary Hellner, Christian Michelsen. (Norway), Jørgen Løvland (Norway), B. Vogt (Norway), C. C. Berner (Norway), secretary Andreas Urbye.
context_page_description: Andreas Tostrup Urbye was a Norwegian civil servant, lawyer, and politician. He served as a county governor and also as a Minister in the Norwegian Cabinet from 1913-1917. He was also the secretary at the Karlstad negotiations that led to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
context_section_description: In 1898, he was hired as the state attorney in Troms and Finnmark.  In 1904, he was hired as a law professor at the University of Kristiania.  In 1905, he was the secretary of the Norwegian delegates to the Karlstad negotiations that led to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  In 1906, Urbye was appointed as the County Governor of Finnmark county .  He resigned in 1912.  He was a judge in Eiker, Modum, and Sigdal in 1912 and 1913. In 1913, he was appointed as the Minister of Labour.  On 26 July 1916, the Prime Minister of Norway, Gunnar Knudsen, shuffled his Cabinet and moved Urbye to the post of Minister of Justice, a job he held for one year.  He proposed a bill to restrict the freedom of the press in 1917, but it was voted down in the Odelsting, so he resigned his position and left the government.  Shortly thereafter, was briefly the Stiftamtsmann of Oslo in 1917.
  In 1918, he began working in the field of diplomacy.  From 1918-1922, he was the government's envoy to Helsinki. From 1922-1924, he was the envoy to Tallinn and Riga.  From 1924-1939, he was the government's envoy to Moscow.  From 1939 until 1949, he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
caption: Urbye on the far right at the Karlstad negotiations to dissolve the Union of Norway and Sweden.
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