Arthur Buchardt (born 15 June 1948), is a
Norwegian investor who mainly invests in hotel projects.
In 1948, Buchardt was born in
Drammen
Drammen () is a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such ...
, however he spent the majority of his childhood and was raised in
Nesodden
Nesodden is a municipality in Akershus in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Greater Oslo Region and many residents of the peninsula Nesodden commute to work in Oslo.
It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative ...
and in
Brumunddal
Brumunddal is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Ringsaker Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. It is located on the shores of the lake Mjøsa, about north of the town of ...
. He went to school at the Norwegian School of Management and eventually graduated. Buchardt has been married twice, one of his marriages was to Wenche Myhre; it lasted four years. Starting in 1989, Buchardt's contributions to the hotel real estate industry was mainly limited to design and investment. In 1994, Buchardt had finished a hotel in
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...
that proved to be immensely necessary for the lodging needs of the
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tourists. He now owns a real estate investment company with his son, Anders Buchardt, called AB Invest.
Buchardt was married to
Wenche Myhre
Wenche Synnøve Myhre (born 15 February 1947), known in German as Wencke Myhre, is a Norwegian singer who has had a great number of hit songs since the 1960s in the Norwegian, Danish, German and Swedish markets and languages. She represented Ger ...
in 1996, but they got separated in 1999.
References
External links
Artikeln "Full fart oppover" av Geir Anders Rybakken Ørslien, ''Dagbladet'', 2003-06-07(Norwegian)
Pressmeddelande, ''Citytunneln'', 2006-04-24(Swedish)
1948 births
Norwegian businesspeople
Living people
People from Drammen
People from Nesodden
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