High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frederik Stang (1808 – 1884) was a Norwegian lawyer, public servant, and politician who served as Norway`s first prime minister. Frederik Stang was the driving force in the Norwegian political society. Stang was responsible for the start of the material development in Norway, in the middle of the 19th century. His struggle to preserve the distribution of power - "the system Stang" - led to a bitter political struggle in the last years of his life came to a shadow of his big-building efforts for the country.