Emil Diesen (14 April 1880 – 24 June 1942) was a Norwegian civil servant and editor.

Personal life

He was born in

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a son of captain Ernst Georg Diesen (1841–1908) and Anna Kathrine Fredrikke Elisabeth Seip (1851–1930). He was a brother of

Andreas Melchior Seip Diesen Andreas Melchior Seip Diesen (23 September 1881 – 12 November 1958) was a Norwegian physician. He was the city physician () in Oslo, and member of the Administrative Council (Norway), Administrative Council in 1940. Personal life Diesen was b ...

, first cousin of

Henry Diesen Henry Edward Diesen (3 April 1883 – 7 January 1953) was a Norwegian naval officer. He was born in Trondhjem as the son of telegrapher Edward Diesen (1852–1909) and Johanne Christophine Stenersen (1855–1936). He was a first cousin of Emil ...

, uncle of

Ernst Diesen Ernst Diesen (6 April 1913 – 14 November 1970) was a Norwegian revue and film actor and theatre director. Personal life Diesen was born on 6 April 1913 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Andreas Melchior Seip Diesen (1881– ...

and granduncle of

Andreas Diesen Andreas Diesen (born 20 November 1945) is a Norwegian television presenter and revue historian. In 2005 he was awarded the Leonard Statuette from the Norwegian Comedy Writers' Association. Having been assigned with NRK since 1965, he was awarde ...

. In 1913 he married German citizen Emmy Anna Adelheid Benecke. Their daughter Dagmar was married to

Christian August Anker Christian August Anker (9 August 1840 – 30 September 1912) was a Norwegian industrialist. He played an important role in the early mining industry in Norway and was also a pioneer in the wood-processing industry. He was born in the town of F ...

for some time.

Career

He finished his secondary education in 1898, graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1907 and the

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degree in 1908. He was hired as a secretary in National Insurance Administration in 1908, and after some years as secretary of the

Norwegian Insurance Council Norwegian Insurance Council () was a supervisory authority for the insurance industry in Norway. It was created following the Insurance Companies Act of 29 July 1911, replacing a committee named . From 1958 it also supervised pension funds. In 198 ...

since 1913 and teacher at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...

since 1915, he returned as head of department in the Insurance Administration in 1917. Already after one year, in 1918 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine '' Økonomisk Revy''. While at the Norwegian Institute of Technology he chaired the Student Society in Trondhjem from 1915 to 1916. He was a prolific economical writer. His largest work was ''Norsk industri- og næringshaandbok'', a registry of several branches of Norwegian industry and business. It was released in several volumes between 1917 and 1921. A volume was dedicated to mechanical workshops, others to the finishing industry, paper industry, mining and metallurgic industry, timber industry, textile industry, sports equipment manufacturing, construction and food and beverage industry. There were also handbooks for the banking and insurance industries, and one volume covered the press and journalists in Norway at the time. He later issued several yearbooks of "

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s of the world", and his last books were about the banks of specific

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. From 1931 to 1933 he chaired the

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. He was also vice chairman of the

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group on state economics. He died in June 1942 and was buried at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diesen, Emil 1880 births 1942 deaths University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology Norwegian economists Norwegian civil servants Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian non-fiction writers Burials at Vestre gravlund