Fredrik Hagemann (4 March 1929 – 12 June 2019)– En uredd og faglig sterk oljepioner er død
was a

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and bureaucrat He was born in

Andenes is the administrative centre of Andøy Municipality which is located in the Vesterålen district of Nordland county, Norway. The village of Andenes is the northernmost settlement of the island of Andøya (and in Nordland county). To the east ...

as the son of literary historian and literary critic

Sonja Hagemann Sonja Hagemann (6 September 1898 – 17 October 1983) was a Norwegian literary historian and literary critic, especially of children's literature. She is primarily known for the monumental ''Barnelitteratur i Norge'' (Norwegian Children's Liter ...

. He graduated with the

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degree, and worked in the

Norwegian Geological Survey Geological Survey of Norway ( no, Norges geologiske undersøkelse), abbreviation: ''NGU'', is a Norwegian government agency responsible for geologic mapping and research. The agency is located in Trondheim with an office in Tromsø, with about ...

from 1957 to 1966. responsible for petroleum issues (''seksjonssjef'') in the

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from 1966 to 1972 and then Director of the

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate ( no, Oljedirektoratet) or OD is a Norwegian government agency responsible for the regulation of the petroleum resources on the Norwegian continental shelf. Based in Stavanger, its mission is to ensure that the ...

from 1972 to 1997. His successor

Gunnar Berge Gunnar Berge (born 29 August 1940) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, born in Etne, Hordaland. Berge represented Rogaland Rogaland () is a county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestl ...

had been appointed already in 1990, but waited several years to take the post; during this period Hagemann was the acting Petroleum Director.

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1929 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Norwegian geologists 21st-century Norwegian geologists Norwegian civil servants Directors of government agencies of Norway People from Andøy {{geologist-stub