The State Administration Database

Equipment Department

This page shows the event history for this unit.

16.04.1953 Founding by complex reorganization

Name: * Equipment Directorate
Short name: Materielldir.
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Directorate in dual role
Superior body: Ministry of Defence
Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.1961* New form of affiliation/administrative level

(The unit is reorganized and has changed its form of affiliation/administrative level.)
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division

01.01.1961* Change of name

Name: Equipment Department
Short name: Matr.avd.

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

31.12.1993* Pure disbanding

(The unit is terminated.)

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.