---
title: "Aase Lionaes"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Aase Lionaes"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Nobel Peace Prize","Andrei Sakharov","Carl von Ossietzky","Norwegian Nobel Committee","Geir Lundestad"]
seek_code_commit: "n/a"
---


Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting, who delivered the Committee's Presentation Speech at [[entity-andrei-sakharov|Andrei Sakharov]]'s 1975 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

Matters to this vault as the earliest documented author of the Ossietzky-Sakharov institutional pairing: her 1975 speech named [[entity-carl-von-ossietzky|Carl von Ossietzky]] as the precedent for a laureate "prevented from being present," 26 years before [[entity-geir-lundestad|Geir Lundestad]]'s 2001 institutional history and 35 years before the Committee's 2010 Liu Xiaobo ceremony speech repeated the same structure — making her the foundational figure in a comparison later credited to a 2017 Committee statement.

## References
- [[claim-lionaes-1975-presentation-speech-first-paired-sakharov-and-ossietzky]]
- [[claim-sakharov-1975-nobel-lecture-and-acceptance-speech-silent-on-ossietzky]]
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