Andreas Zeier Cappelen (31 January 1915 â 2 September 2008) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Vang Municipality in Hedmark county.
He held a variety of positions in different Norwegian cabinets. He was Minister of Local Government Affairs in 1958âÂÂ1963 in the third cabinet Gerhardsen, Minister of Finance in 1963 and 1963âÂÂ1965 only interrupted by the short-lived cabinet Lyng, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first cabinet Bratteli in 1971âÂÂ1972, and finally Minister of Justice 1979âÂÂ1980 in the cabinet Nordli.
As an elected politician he served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland during the term 1961âÂÂ1965. On the local level he was a member of the municipal council for Stavanger Municipality in the periods 1945âÂÂ1947, 1951âÂÂ1957, 1967–1971 and 1983âÂÂ1987, serving as deputy mayor briefly in 1953. He was also a member of Rogaland county council from 1966 to 1969. He chaired the county party chapter from 1956 to 1957.
Besides politics he worked as a lawyer and a judge, having graduated as cand.jur. in 1939.
With his brothers he was a member of Mot Dag in the 1930s.