Jens Hundseid

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Jens Hundseid (6 May 1883, Vikedal – 13 December 1965) was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party. He was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1924 to 1940 and Prime Minister of Norway from 1932 to 1933.

Hundseid felt forced to join Nasjonal Samling who supported the Nazis in 1940, a choice he later called "cowardly". In the legal purge in Norway following World War II he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Pardoned in 1949 he lived a recluse in Oslo until his death in 1965.

Political offices
Preceded by Peder Kolstad	Prime Minister of Norway 1932–1933	Succeeded by Johan Ludwig Mowinckel

v d e Heads of government of Norway

First Ministers, 1814–1873	Haxthausen • Rosenkrantz • Sommerhielm • Collett • Krog • Vogt • Petersen • F. Stang

Prime Ministers, 1873–1905	F. Stang • Selmer • Schweigaard • Sverdrup • E. Stang • Steen • E. Stang • Hagerup • Steen • Blehr • Hagerup

Prime Ministers, 1905–1940	Michelsen • Løvland • Knudsen • Konow • Bratlie • Knudsen • Halvorsen • Blehr • Halvorsen • Berge • Mowinckel • Lykke • Hornsrud • Mowinckel • Kolstad • Hundseid • Mowinckel • Nygaardsvold

WWII 1940–1945	Nygaardsvold (Prime Minister in exile, 1940-1945) Quisling (Prime Minister, 1940 coup) • Christensen (Chairman of the Administrative Council, 1940) • Terboven (German Commissioner for Norway) • Quisling (Minister President, 1942-1945)

Prime Ministers, 1945–	Gerhardsen • Torp • Gerhardsen • Lyng • Gerhardsen • Borten • Bratteli • Korvald • Bratteli • Nordli • Brundtland • Willoch • Brundtland • Syse • Brundtland • Jagland • Bondevik • Stoltenberg • Bondevik • Stoltenberg