Arne Meidell.
Arne Meidell (17 November 1894 – 8 August 1963) was a Norwegian jurist and businessperson.
He was born in
Kristiania
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as a son of barrister
Kristian Garup Meidell (1866–1926) and Kristine Marie Birkeland (1871–1958).
He was a maternal grandson of Supreme Court Justice
Laurits Birkeland. In 1918 he married Danish pharmacist's daughter Asta Trojel (1896–1984).
Frogner School
Frogner School ( and subsequently ''Frogner Realskole og Gymnas'', commonly known as ''Frogner skole'') was a secondary school at Frogner in Oslo, Norway.
The school was a continuation of the Gjertsen School, which had been founded in 1869. Gjer ...
in 1912, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University
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with the cand.jur.
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The de ...
degree in 1916. After graduation, he was a junior solicitor, then from 1925 a barrister with access to Supreme Court
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cases. By then he had already become a business leader. In 1922 he was hired as manager of Lilleborg Fabriker
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, advancing to chief executive officer in 1929. In 1933 he was hired as chief executive (director-general) in Borregaard
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, where he remained until 1960.[
He also chaired the board of Borregaard and ]Norges Eksportråd The Norwegian Export Council () was a Norwegian state-owned consultant organ established in 1945. Its role was to provide consultancy and advice for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in export-related matters. Until 1994 the council was financed by a ...
, was a board member of De-No-Fa from 1925 to 1933, Lade Fabriker from 1926 to 1933, Andresens og Bergens Kreditbank from 1928 to 1933, as well as Sulitjelma Gruber from 1937, Norsk Cellullfabrikk, Folldal Verk,[ and supervisory council member of Forsikringsaktieselskabet Norden and Norges Hypotekforening for Næringslivet. He was a member of the skiing-based social club SK Fram, and served as deputy chairman from 1959 to 1960 and chairman from 1960 to 1963. He was a vice president of the ]Norwegian Red Cross
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,[ and in the 1930s he was a member of the council of Norges Forsvarsforening.]consul
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for Denmark
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from 1928 to 1933.Order of the Dannebrog
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, the Order of Vasa
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His ...
, the Order of the White Rose of Finland
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and the Austrian Order of Merit,[ as well as a Commander with Star of the ]Order of St. Olav
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Just be ...
. A road has been named after him in Sarpsborg
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,[ and a bust of Meidell was unveiled in the same city in 1964.]
References
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1894 births
1963 deaths
Businesspeople from Oslo
People from Sarpsborg
University of Oslo alumni
20th-century Norwegian lawyers
20th-century Norwegian businesspeople
Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
Knights of the Order of Vasa
SK Fram members