Andreas Kielland Rygg (22 March 1909 – 2 April 1999) was a Norwegian military officer. He was born in

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, a son of naval commander Andreas Andersen and Nelly Kielland. He finished secondary school in 1929 and graduated as a naval officer in 1932. He married Sofie Gram in 1937, daughter of stipendiary magistrate

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and sister of

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. He served on several vessels, from 1939 as second-in-command of HNoMS ''B-6''. In May 1940 he temporarily left naval service, being hired in the Ministry of Provisioning in the summer. During the

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he established the clandestine organization for naval intelligence RMO, which operated from

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from the spring of 1942. Rygg chaired RMO until he had to flee to Sweden in 1943, due to the German

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of Norwegian military officers. From 1943 to 1945 he served at the military office of the

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. He served as naval attaché in

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and

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from 1948 to 1950, and assistant naval attaché in

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from 1950 to 1952. He was Border Commissioner at the Norway-Soviet border from 1962 to 1969, and then worked in the naval staff until 1974. He was decorated with the

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, was a Knight, First Class of the Swedish

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, and the Danish

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References

1909 births 1999 deaths People from Horten Royal Norwegian Navy personnel of World War II Norwegian civil servants Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian expatriates in the United States Military attachés for Norway Knights First Class of the Order of the Sword Knights First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog {{norway-mil-bio-stub