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Knut Rasmussen (barrister)
Knut Rasmussen (6 October 1925 — 31 July 2003) was a Norwegian barrister. In 1966, he established the law firm BA-HR, Bugge, Arentz-Hansen og Rasmussen (BA-HR) together with Lars Arentz-Hansen and Frederik Moltke Bugge (barrister), Frederik Moltke Bugge. BA-HR became one of Norway's most prestigious law firms. He also chaired the supervisory council of UNI Storebrand. After Jan Erik Langangen's demise as chief executive officer in 1992, the supervisory council chose Rasmussen's partner in BA-HR Anders Eckhoff to succeed Thorleif Borge as UNI Storebrand's chair. Rasmussen subsequently stepped down as chair of the supervisory council in favor of Harald Arnkværn. References 20th-century Norwegian lawyers 1925 births 2003 deaths {{Norway-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aftenposten
(; ; stylized as in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation as well as Norway's newspaper of record. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 daily copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million readers. It converted from broadsheet to compact format in March 2005. ''Aftenposten''s online edition is at Aftenposten.no. ''Aftenposten'' is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norway's second largest newspaper, ''VG'', is also owned by Schibsted. Norwegian owners held a 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015. The paper has around 240 employees. Trine Eilertsen was appointed editor-in-chief in 2020. Aftenposten has correspondents based in Kyiv, Brussels, Washington D.C, Moscow and Istanbul (2025). History and profile ''Aftenposten'' was founded by Christian Schibsted on 14 May 1860 under the name ''Christiania Adresseblad''. The following year, it was renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Arentz-Hansen
Lars Arentz-Hansen (17 November 1927 – 23 March 2009) was a Norwegian barrister. He was born in Kristiansund and took the cand.jur. Candidate ( or ) is the name of various academic degrees, which are today mainly awarded in Scandinavia. The degree title was phased out in much of Europe through the 1999 Bologna Process, which has re-formatted academic degrees in Europe. The de ... degree in 1951. In 1966 he established the law firm Bugge, Arentz-Hansen og Rasmussen (BA-HR) together with Knut Rasmussen and Frederik Moltke Bugge, which became one of Norway's most prestigious law firms. He also chaired the mountaineering society Norsk Tindeklub from 1966 to 1969. References 1927 births 2009 deaths People from Kristiansund 20th-century Norwegian lawyers Norwegian mountain climbers {{Norway-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Moltke Bugge (barrister)
Frederik Moltke Bugge (6 October 1923 – 2001) was a Norwegian barrister and businessperson. Personal life Bugge was born in Kristiania, son of barrister Wilhelm Bugge and Gudrun Gundersen, brother of Supreme Court Justice Jens Bugge, grandson of barrister Fredrik Moltke Bugge, great-grandson of bishop Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge, great-great-grandson of educator Frederik Moltke Bugge and great-great-great-grandson of bishop Peter Olivarius Bugge. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of bishop Johan Christian Heuch and second cousin of Hanne Heuch. In 1949 he married Mary Baldwin Gundersen, a physician's daughter and native of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The couple had two daughters and two sons, born between 1950 and 1959. They resided at Blommenholm, later at Montebello. Career Bugge finished his secondary education in 1941. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he fled the country for Sweden enrolling in the Norwegian police troops from1944 to 1945 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNI Storebrand
Storebrand is a financial services company in Norway. By volume, the company's main activities are related to life insurance and pension savings. However, the company also has major divisions working on investments, banking and, until 1999 and again since 2006, P&C insurance products. Through its acquisition of Swedish SPP from Handelsbanken in 2007, Storebrand gained a sizable division dedicated to the Swedish market for life insurance. The company's headquarters are located in Lysaker in the municipality of Bærum, just outside Oslo, Norway. Storebrand is a public company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company CEO is Odd Arild Grefstad. Storebrand issues an annual report for companies engaging in socially responsible investments. History The company traces its roots back to 1767 when Den almindelige Brand-Forsikrings-Anstalt, later Norges Brannkasse, was formed. In 1982 Storebrand merged with its competitor, insurance company Norden, to form the Storebrand-Norden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Erik Langangen
Jan Erik Langangen (born 11 May 1950) is a Norwegian businessperson and lawyer. He was born in Porsgrunn as a son of Sigurd Langangen (1918–1973) and Lilly Auen (1919–1990). He graduated with the siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1973, and then took the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1975. He was hired in the same year as a consultant in Statoil, and headed the economy and finance department from 1979. He remained here until 1983. He was then the deputy chief executive of ''Storebrand-Norden'' from 1983, and advanced to chief executive officer in 1985. From 1986 to 1988 he chaired the Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies. His company merged with UNI in 1991, creating ''UNI Storebrand''. After the Skandia raid in 1991–1992, when UNI Storebrand bought shares in Skandia without acquiring control over the company, and the shares later plummeted, Langangen was forced to leave Storebrand. He had also bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Eckhoff
Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated from Andres via metathesis. In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names for many centuries, earliest attested in 1378. It was common for priests and farmers during medieval times. According to Statistics Sweden, as of 31 December 2021 it ranks 4th among the male names. The great frequency of this name at the point in time (around 1900) when patronymics were converted into family names is the reason why 1 out of every 30 Swedes today is called Andersson. The name day of Anders in the Scandinavian calendar is 30 November, and in the old peasant superstition that day was important for determining what the Christmas weather would be. If it was very cold on 30 November there would be much sleet on Christmas (and vice versa). In Denmark Donald Duck's name is ''Anders And''. The Fering name Anders may have been bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorleif Borge
The Germanic first name Thorleif (which means ''son of Thor'') with variants Torleif (Swedish), Thorleiv/Torleiv (Norwegian) and Þorleif (Icelandic) may refer to: Torleif * (born 1965), co-creator and scriptwriter on Danish crime drama series ''The Killing'' and creator of 2019 series ''DNA'' *Torleif Torkildsen (1892–1944), Norwegian gymnast and Olympian Torleiv * Torleiv Trondson Benkestok Norwegian nobleman (beginning of 16th century) *Torleiv Bolstad (1915–1979), Norwegian musician and Hardanger fiddle player * Torleiv Corneliussen (1890–1975), Norwegian sailor and Olympian *Torleiv Hannaas (1874–1929), Norwegian philologist *Torleiv Hytten (1890–1980), Norwegian-Australian economist *Torleiv Maseng (born 1946), Norwegian engineer * Torleiv Ole Rognum (born 1948), Norwegian physician and politician for the Christian Democratic Party Thorleiv * Thorleiv Røhn (1881–1963), Norwegian gymnast who won a gold medal in the team competition at the 1906 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Arnkværn
Harald Arnkværn (born 5 February 1939) is a Norwegian barrister and businessperson. He was born in Oslo. He finished his secondary education in 1957 and took the cand.jur. degree in 1964. He was a deputy judge in Ringerike District Court from 1964 to 1965, then a junior solicitor from 1965 to 1972 with a study leave at the University of Illinois Law School from 1967 to 1968. He took the lawyer's license in 1966 and was a barrister (a lawyer with access to Supreme Court cases) from 1972. He was employed in Christiania Spigerverk from 1965 to 1974 and Den norske Creditbank from 1974 to 1988. In 1988 he was acting chief executive officer of DnC. He then continued his career as a barrister in the law firm Haavind Vislie. He succeeded Knut Rasmussen as chair of the supervisory council in UNI Storebrand in 1992. He has also been chair of Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse from 1996 to 2001, Kværner, Vinmonopolet, Schøyen Gruppen, the Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Cred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verdens Gang
(), generally known under the abbreviation ''VG'', is a Norway, Norwegian Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper. In 2016, circulation numbers stood at 93,883, declining from a peak circulation of 390,510 in 2002. Nevertheless, ''VG'' is the most-read online newspaper in Norway, with about 2 million daily readers. Verdens Gang AS is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted, Schibsted ASA. History and profile ''VG'' was established by members of the Norwegian resistance movement shortly after the country was liberated from German occupation of Norway in World War II, German occupation in 1945. The first issue of the paper was published on 23 June 1945. Christian A. R. Christensen was the first editor-in-chief of ''VG'' from its start in 1945 to 1967, when he died. ''VG'' is based in Oslo. The paper is published in tabloid format. The owner, media conglomerate Schibsted, also owns Norway's largest newspaper, , as well as newspapers in Sweden, Estonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship. * January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. * January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. * January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic. February * February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
