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Jógvan Sundstein

Jógvan Sundstein


Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
In office 18 January 1989 – 15 January 1991
Monarch	Margrethe II
Preceded by	Atli P. Dam
Succeeded by	Atli P. Dam

Personal details
Born	(1933-05-25) 25 May 1933 (age 90) Tórshavn, Streymoy, Faroe Islands
Political party	Fólkaflokkurin

Jógvan Sundstein (born 25 May 1933) is a Faroese politician and member of the Faroese People's Party.

Jógvan is the son of Johanna Malena (born Jensen) and Hans Jacob Matras Sundstein from Tórshavn. He is married to Lydia (born Marsten) from Klaksvík.

Jógvan Sundstein is a certified accountant and was a member of numerous boards of directors. In 1979 he was elected to the Løgting for the first time. He was the speaker of the Løgting from 1980 to 1984 and 1988 to 1989. He was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (Løgmaður) from 1989 to 1991 and was a minister from 1991 to 1993.

In 2008 Sundstein published his memoirs, becoming the first Faroese politician to do so.^[1]

Johan Sundstein, better known as N0tail, is his grandson.^[2]

Works

Frá barnaárum ungu til lívsins heystartíð. Stiðin 2008

References

Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit. Tórshavn 2002, Volume 2, p. 351 (PDF-Download)

Notes

^ portal.fo: Sundstein skrivar søgu Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, June 2, 2008. ("Sundstein writes history")
^ sosialurin.in.fo: Jóhan Sundstein: Eg geri bara tað, eg elski og dugi best , August 25, 2019. ("Jóhan Sundstein: I am only doing the things, I love and am best at")