Frederik Moltke Bugge (6 October 1923 – 2001) was a Norwegian barrister and businessperson.

Personal life

Bugge was born in

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, son of barrister Wilhelm Bugge and Gudrun Gundersen, brother of Supreme Court Justice Jens Bugge, grandson of barrister Fredrik Moltke Bugge, great-grandson of bishop Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge, great-great-grandson of educator Frederik Moltke Bugge and great-great-great-grandson of bishop Peter Olivarius Bugge. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of bishop

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and second cousin of Hanne Heuch.''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912
/ref> In 1949 he married Mary Baldwin Gundersen, a physician's daughter and native of

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. The couple had two daughters and two sons, born between 1950 and 1959. They resided at

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Career

Bugge finished his secondary education in 1941. During the

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, he fled the country for

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enrolling in the Norwegian police troops from1944 to 1945 and decorated with the

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. After the war he graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1947, and after studying French and history at the Free University of Brussels in 1948, he served one year as a deputy judge in Ringerike District Court. He then spent a few years in the United States, working for Alcoa Steamship Company from 1949 to 1951. He took a translator's exam that year, and spent the following two years as consultant for the

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. In 1953 he was hired as a solicitor in the law firm ran by his father and Peter Platou Stabell; Stabell was later succeeded by Erling Christiansen. Bugge was created partner in the firm in 1958, but in 1966 he joined

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and Knut Rasmussen to establish the new law firm Bugge, Arentz-Hansen og Rasmussen (BA-HR). BA-HR became one of Norway's most prestigious law firms. Bugge retired in 1991. Bugge chaired Union Co from 1965 to 1980, Norsk Aluminium Company,

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, Volvo Norge and Arendal Smelteverk, and was a board member of Standard Telefon og Kabelfabrik,

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, Fabritius Gruppen and Ilmenittsmelteverket in Tyssedal. He was a supervisory council member of ''

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'', deputy supervisory council member of

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and corporate council member of Storebrand-Norden. He died in March 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bugge, Frederik Moltke 1923 births 2001 deaths Lawyers from Oslo University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian expatriates in Belgium Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian resistance members Norwegian military personnel of World War II 20th-century Norwegian lawyers