Fridtjof Frank Gundersen

Fridtjof Frank Gundersen (29 October 1934 – 11 November 2011) was a Norwegian professor of jurisprudence and politician. He worked as a lector at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1975. In 1975 he became professor of jurisprudence at the Norwegian School of Economics.

Gundersen was elected a Member of Parliament in 1981 representing the Progress Party platform, but did not formally join the party until 1990. He fell out of parliament in 1985, but was re-elected for three consecutive four-year terms from 1989. He left the party in 2001, and failed to get re-elected to parliament again in the election later the same year, having stood for a local electoral list. Following the defeat, he retired as politician.

Early life and education Gundersen was born in Tynset Municipality in Hedmark to lawyer Ragnar Gundersen (1895–1985) and Betzy Lommeland (1902–1994). After finishing his secondary education in 1954, he came through the Russian language course of the Norwegian army, and achieved the law degree cand.jur. at the University of Oslo in 1961. In 1963 he was the vice chairman of the Norwegian Students' Society. He took the admission course in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1963, and was a secretary in the Ministry until 1965. and has written a large number of publications, regarding law, economics, parliamentary issues such as control of trade monopolies, administrative law, trade law, governance mechanisms, contract law and related things. Many of his books were issued through his own publishing house, operating out of Jar and Sandvika.

He was a member of the Broadcasting Council from 1986 to 1990, having been a deputy member since 1982. From 1983 to 1985 he was also a member of the commission that prepared the launch of TV 2. He represented the county of Akershus. He lost his seat in 1985, and the same year he wrote the memoir-like Fri og frank på Tinget. Gundersen tried together with other breakaways of the party to run with the Liberal People's Party, but as this failed he rather ran for the new local Oslo List. The election for the party became a failure, and he thus pulled out from active politics.

He claimed that Norwegians are a homogenous people, poorly able to absorb large ethnic minorities who are mostly loyal to their own culture, and that potential problems regarding this will only become more evident in the future. In 1997 he also drew parallels to the Bosnian War as a possible future scenario in Norway, that "there is a great risk that we will become flooded by Muslims", and that he would not be surprised if Norway would see "serious terrorism" within ten to twenty years. In early 2001 he nonetheless praised Muslims in cities like Cairo and Istanbul for taking more personal care of their friends and family, instead of merely being dependent on public welfare programs which is common in countries like Norway.

Writings Gundersen has written several publications. 1966: Ny solidaritet (et al.), Aschehoug 1968: Introduksjon til EEC. Rettslige og politiske spørsmål, Universitetsforlaget 1968: FN-ideal og realitet (with Per Morten Vigtel), Gyldendal 1969: Fremtiden utfordrer politikerne (editor), Minerva forlag 1970: Konservativ kommentar til A-partiets prinsipp-program (editor), Høyres "Tenkegruppe 99" 1970: Etableringsretten og Det europeiske økonomiske samarbeid, Grøndahl & Søn Forlag 1970: Multinasjonale konserner og kontrollen med dem, European Movement Norway 1971: EEC-håndboken. 2 bind, Universitetsforlaget 1972: Kontrollen med karteller og storbedrifter, Universitetsforlaget 1973: Roma-traktaten og planene om et norsk engrosmonopol for øl, Universitetsforlaget 1973: Statlige handelsmonopoler og EF, Universitetsforlaget 1977: Hovedlinjer i avtaleretten, Jar 1977: Norsk og internasjonal markedsrett (with Ulf Bernitz), Jar 1978: Hovedlinjer i forvaltningsretten, Jar 1979: Bedrifts- og personalrett (with Christian Schjoldager), Bergen 1981: Om å bruke andres penger. En innføring i norsk parasittøkonomi, Oslo 1982: Privatrett for økonomer (with Arthur J. Brudvik), Jar 1985: Fri og frank på Tinget: liberalisme med norsk vri 1986: Praktisk jus - spørsmål og svar, Sandvika 1988: Jus for økonomer (with Arthur J. Brudvik), Jar 1989: Helse og politiske styringsmekanismer, Tano 1989: EF-boken, Tano 1989: Lov og rett for næringslivet (with Sverre F. Langfeldt), Tano 1992: Innføring i EØS og EF-rett (with Ulf Bernitz), 2002: Introduksjon til EU, 2010: EU - etter Lisboa-traktaten: institusjoner, rettssystem og rettsregler, Gyldendal