Hans Jørgen Darre-Jenssen

Hans Jørgen Darre-Jenssen (22 June 1864 – 26 June 1950) was a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Free-minded Liberal Party. He was the Minister of Labour from 1910 to 1912, and thereafter served as director of the Norwegian State Railways.

Personal life He was born in Ranheim in Strinden Municipality as a son of estate owner and politician Lauritz Jenssen (1837–1899) and Jørgine Wilhelmine Darre (1842–1910). He was a younger brother of engineer Lauritz Jenssen Dorenfeldt, and an older brother of Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, who also served as Minister of Labour, from 1926 to 1928.

On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Jacob Hersleb Darre, a founding father of the Norwegian Constitution, and a grandson of bishop Hans Jørgen Darre. On the paternal side he was a member of the Jenssen trading dynasty; as the great-grandson of Matz Jenssen, grandson of Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen, grandnephew of Jens Nicolai and Hans Peter Jenssen and a second cousin of Anton and Hans Peter Jenssen. Through his brother Lauritz he was an uncle of jurist Lauritz Jenssen Dorenfeldt. The work with the Drammen Line was not finished until 1922. The Liberal Left Party was also a part of the successor cabinet, Bratlie's Cabinet, but Darre-Jenssen was not picked to continue.

From 1912, then, he was a technical director of the Norwegian State Railways. He left in 1919 after a conflict with Knudsen's Second Cabinet, to become CEO of the tramway company Akersbanerne from 1919 to 1935. He was also a board member of Norsk Hovedjernbane from 1912 to 1920, and president of the Nordiska järnvägsmannasällskapet from 1920 to 1924.

Darre-Jenssen was also a member of the board of Oslo Port Authority, and from 1907 to 1910 he chaired the board of Kristiania Gasverk. He was also a member of the board of the Norwegian Red Cross, serving as its president from 1913 to 1917. He received a Red Cross honorary medal, and was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, the Order of the Polar Star and the Order of the White Rose of Finland. He died in June 1950 in Oslo.