Jan Bøhler

Jan Bøhler (born 1 March 1952) is a Norwegian politician for the Save Ullevål Hospital electoral list.^[1] He was previously a member of the Centre Party and the Labour Party.^[2] He served as a member of Parliament representing Oslo, from 2005 to 2021.

Jan Bøhler
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 2005 – 30 September 2021
Constituency	Oslo
State Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In office 26 January 2001 – 19 October 2001
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Minister	Thorbjørn Jagland
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-01) 1 March 1952 (age 73) Oslo, Norway
Political party	Save Ullevål Hospital Centre (2020–2025) Labour (until 2020)

Career

Stoltenberg’s first cabinet

From January to October 2001, during the first cabinet Stoltenberg, Bøhler served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He left his position after his party lost the election.

Local politics

Locally, Bøhler was the party secretary of the local party chapter from 2002, and leader from 2004. Between 1991 and 1995 he was secretary to the Oslo city council chairman Rune Gerhardsen.

Parliament

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 2005. He was re-elected three times since, but lost his seat in the 2021 election.^[3]

Bibliography

• Østkantfolk (2020; non-fiction), co-authored by Einar Haakaas^[4]
• Nær folk (2021; non-fiction), co-authored by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum^[5]