Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland

Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland (27 May 1814 – 12 October 1893) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and mountaineer. Having reached the rank of major general by 1859, he served as Minister of the Army for several periods between 1857 and 1868. He later became lieutenant general. He had several notable family members.

Personal life Wergeland was born in Bergen as the son of Ingeborg Bergithe Lassesen Wergeland and her husband Gierth Christian Storm. A nephew of priest and politician Nicolai Wergeland and cousin of the poet Henrik Wergeland, feminist writer Camilla Collett and military officer Oscar Wergeland, Harald Wergeland grew up in their household.

In October 1841 he married Anne Sofie Schøyen, born in 1816 in Sør-Odal. The couple had several children. He held the military rank of Second Lieutenant. In 1857 he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and made chief of the General Staff. In 1859 he had been promoted to major general.

In 1875, Wergeland was appointed commander of Akershus Fortress, having reached the rank of lieutenant general.

Wergeland also made his mark on civil life. He was a member of the board of directors of the Royal Norwegian Society for Development, the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers and the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. Commander Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Sword, 7 September 1862 Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav, 3 April 1868 Knight of the Royal Order of Charles XIII, 8 November 1871 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, 1872 Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, 18 April 1871 Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 3rd Class