Carl Frederik Motzfeldt (3 April 1808 – 24 June 1902) was a Norwegian politician. The son of General Major Carl M. Motzfeldt, he enrolled as a student in 1827 and graduated as

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in 1838. He was editor-in-chief of ''

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'' from 1841 to 1842. He mostly worked in the Ministry of Auditing until 1854, when he was appointed Diocesan Governor of Tromsø stiftamt, which also included the jobs of County Governor of both Finmarkens Amt and

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(two of the subordinate counties under Tromsø). In 1857 he was elected to the

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in 1848, representing the urban constituency of ''Tromsø, Hammerfest og Vadsø'', as the Governor was seated in

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. However, he left Northern Norway the same year to become the Diocesan Governor of Trondhjems stiftamt and the County Governor of ''Søndre Trondhjems Amt''. Seated in

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, he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the constituency of ''Trondhjem og Levanger'' in 1868, 1871, and 1874. He was issued the Grand Cross of the

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. He retired in 1894, and died in 1902, cause of death is unknown.

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1808 births 1902 deaths Members of the Storting County governors of Norway Finnmark politicians Sør-Trøndelag politicians Norwegian newspaper editors {{Norway-politician-1800s-stub