Fredrik Stang Heffermehl (22 March 1913 – 27 February 1993) was a Norwegian jurist and businessperson. He was born in

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as a son of consul Fredrik Stang Heffermehl, Sr. (1870–1937) and Ida Henriksen (1876–1955). He finished his secondary education in 1930, and graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1935. He started working as a jurist, and also studied abroad on a scholarship in 1939. He was married twice; first from 1937 to Elisabeth Thorne Nielsen (1914–1943). After she died, Heffermehl married Karin Louise Moestue in 1914. He was hired in the

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corporation in 1937 as a judicial secretary. This meant that he worked for both Hafslund, Glommens Træsliberi and Vamma Fossekompani. In 1946 he was promoted to assisting director in the Hafslund corporation. He was promoted further to mercantile director in 1953, vice chief executive in 1961 and chief executive in 1966. He remained chief executive until 1979, and was then a board member until 1983. He was a central board member of the

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, and a member of the board, the executive committee and several other committees in the

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during the 1950s and 1960s. He was a deputy chairman of Glommens og Laagens Brukseierforening, board member of Viul Tresliperi and supervisory council member of Noratom and Norcontrol. Heffermehl was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

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in 1979. He died in February 1993.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heffermehl, Fredrik Stang 1913 births 1993 deaths Businesspeople from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian jurists 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople