Einar Grøstad (1902–1983) was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant. He graduated with the

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degree in 1925, and worked as a deputy judge in

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from 1928 to 1930. In 1930 he was hired in the

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, advancing to assistant secretary in 1935. In 1948 he was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in the

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from 1948 to 1954, before serving as deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance from 1954 to 1972. He had a short hiatus from 1959 to 1960, when he was the director of Statens bygge- og eiendomsdirektorat. He had applied for the position in the Ministry of Finance in 1951, when

Friedrich Georg Nissen Friedrich Georg Nissen (28 October 1887 - 1969) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Bergen, and was a cand.jur. by education. He was hired in the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1915, and was promoted to subdirector in 1919. In 1924 he cha ...

was to be succeeded, and all deputy under-secretaries agreed that he was the best qualified among the applicants. However,

Sigurd Lorentzen Sigurd Juell Lorentzen (5 August 1916 – 25 January 1979) was a Norwegian judge and civil servant. He was born in Sunndal Municipality, and was a brother of professor Gustav Fredrik Lorentzen. He married judge Lelia Marie Loe in 1957. They reside ...

was chosen, by

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Trygve Bratteli Trygve Martin Bratteli (11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, a politician with the Norwegian Labour Party, and Nazi concentration camp survivor. He served as the prime minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 a ...

. In 1957, both Grøstad and Lorentzen applied to become the successor of Nissen as permanent under-secretary of state. However, they were both jurists, and economist

Eivind Erichsen Eivind Erichsen (28 January 1917 – 21 January 2005) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant. Life and career He was born in Kristiania as a son of postmaster Erik Emanuel Erichsen (1884–1963) and Petra Antoine Olsen (1885–1930). In Ma ...

was chosen by Bratteli.Lie, 1995: pp. 333–335 In ''Det nordiske administrative forbund'', Grøstad was the president from 1963 to 1971, and later an honorary member. He was also decorated with the

Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II, known to posterity as St. Olav. Just be ...

. He died in the autumn of 1983.

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1902 births 1983 deaths Norwegian jurists Directors of government agencies of Norway {{Norway-law-bio-stub