Carl Viggo Manthey Lange (9 April 1904 – 31 May 1999) was a Norwegian physician and politician for theLabour Party.
He was born inKristiania as a son ofChristian Lous Lange (1869–1938) and Bertha Manthey (1867–1947), and brother ofAugust andHalvard Manthey Lange. He enrolled as a student in 1922, and graduated with thecand.med. degree in 1929.[1] While studying he was a member ofMot Dag, where he organized study circles for both members and non-members,[2] and contributed to the periodicalPopulært Tidsskrift for Seksuell Oplysning.[3] He was the chairman of theNorwegian Students' Society in 1933, and of theStudent Society in Trondheim in 1939.[1]
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Lange worked as a physician in Oslo from 1930, and then inTrondheim from 1934 to 1946. The exception was the period from 1942 to 1945, when he was imprisoned atFalstad concentration camp by theNazi occupants of Norway. He was actingcity physician (stadsfysikus) from 1946 to 1947, and also health inspector in Trondheim from 1946 to 1955. He became involved in politics, and was a member of Trondheim city council from 1945 to 1955, from 1945 to 1950 and 1954 to 1955 as a member of the executive committee. He was elected to theParliament of Norway from theMarket towns of Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag counties in1949, where he was a member of theStanding Committee on Social Affairs. He was not re-elected in1953, but served as a deputy representative during the term 1950–1953.[1]
From 1955 to 1964 he was district physician inOddernes, and from 1964 to his retirement in 1974 he was a county physician inVest-Agder.[1] When he applied for the post in Vest-Agder, theNorwegian Directorate for Health led byKarl Evang suggested that another candidate be hired. However, Minister of HealthOlav Gjærevoll overturned the recommendation and gave Lange the position. This was criticized as a "politicized" appointment.[4]
Lange was board chairman of theNorwegian People's Aid chapter in Trondheim from 1939 to 1946, board member ofTrøndelag Teater from 1946 to 1949 and of theNorwegian Medical Association from 1948 to 1949. He died in May 1999.[1]