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Klaus Serck-Hanssen
Klaus Serck-Hanssen (5 April 1886 – 28 August 1980) was a Norwegian engineer and mining executive. Personal life Serck-Hanssen was born in Bergen, a son of physician and politician Klaus Hanssen and Dorothea Marstrand Serck. He married Gunvor Quenild in 1921. Among their children was Arne Serck-Hanssen (born 1925), a competitive sportsperson who participated at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Career Serck-Hanssen graduated with a diplom degree in shipbuilding from the Technische Universität Berlin, TH Charlottenburg in 1911. From 1912 he initiated a career in the mining industry. He was manager of the Vigsnes Copperworks at Karmøy from 1914 to 1920. From 1920 to 1938 he was assistant manager at the Orkla Mining Company. From 1939 to 1954 he managed the Skorovass Gruber in Skorovatn. During the German occupation of Norway he was arrested by the Nazi authorities in April 1942, and held in the prison at Åkebergveien, at Møllergata 19 and the Grini concentration camp until the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 2025 the population is 294 029 according to Statistics Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden (Hordaland), Byfjorden, 'the city fjord'. The city is surrounded by mountains, causing Bergen to be called the "city of Seven Mountains, Bergen, seven mountains". Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Vestland county. The city consists of eight boroughs: Arna, Bergen, Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Bergen, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad, Bergen, Årstad, and Åsane. Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s. According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by King Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
