Herman Løvenskiold (politician)

Herman Løvenskiold (20 June 1869 – 2 February 1927) was a Norwegian military officer and politician for the Conservative Party.

He reached as far as chairing the Parliament's Standing Committee on the Military, but died during an important debate.

He was born in Christiania as a son of landowner and jurist Herman Løvenskiold (1822–1910) and Mina Heftye (1831–1899).

He was an aspirant in the general staff from 1895, adjoint and Captain from 1900, Major from September 1914 and Lieutenant Colonel from 1 January 1918.

[1] On 1 February 1927, while Parliament debated the new organization of the defence forces (Norwegian: Forsvarsordningen av 1927), Løvenskiold got an absence of leave as he had suffered from cerebral haemorrhage.