List of county governors of Hedmark

The office of county governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway; the title was Amtmann (before 1919) and then Fylkesmann (after 1919).

[1] The large Akershus stiftamt was established in 1664 by the King and it had several subordinate counties (amt).

The governor carries out the resolutions and guidelines of the Storting and Government.

This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries.

Secondly, the county governor also monitors the activities of the municipalities and is the appeal body for many types of municipal decisions.