Johan Richard Krogness

Johan Richard Krogness (11 March 1814 – 3 February 1872) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.

portrait of Johan Richard Krogness

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of merchant Erik Rolfsen Krogness and Ingeborg Jensdatter.^[1] His half-sister Ingeborg Krogness was the mother of Erik Vullum.^[2]

Krogness took the examen artium in 1835 and went on to study law, but quit higher education before graduating. He returned to Trondhjem as a merchant from 1841 before settling at the manor Karlslyst in Hommelvigen,^[3] where he was a ship-owner and ran a brickworks.^[4]

Krogness served as mayor of Strinden Municipality. He was a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway in 1851 and was elected in 1853, and was re-elected in 1856, 1859, 1862, 1865, 1868 and 1870, representing the rural constituency of Søndre Trondhjems Amt.^[1]

Krogness befriended Henrik Wergeland while he was a student, later Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and was a close follower of Johan Sverdrup in parliamentary politics. As such, Krogness was one of the forerunners of the Liberal Party.^[3] He missed the 1871 session due to illness, and died in February the year after^[1] from "weakness of the chest".^[4] He was married to Danish woman Elisabeth Lucie Marie Biering.^[3]