Fredrik "Fritz" Frantz Michael Wilhelm Rustad (19 July 1852 – 9 October 1930) was a Norwegian civil and royal servant. He was born in

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as a son of chamberlain Carl Emil Rustad and Henriette Benedicte Løvenskiold. In April 1880 in Sinsen he married Marie Magdalene Schou (1859–1943), a daughter of

Halvor Schou Halvor Arntzen Schou (11 May 1823 – 5 February 1879) was a Norwegian industrialist. He was the founder of the Hjula Væveri weaving mill in Oslo. Biography Halvor Schou was born in Christiania (now Oslo, Norway). He was a son of Ch ...

. Their son Carl Rustad became a military officer and company director, and married a sister of Jean Heiberg. Their daughter Elisabeth Rustad (1883–1966) married the later Lord Chamberlain Peter Fredrik Broch in 1905, and their daughter Benedicte Rustad (1886–1976) married ship-owner Thomas Fearnley in August 1911. He finished his secondary education at Nissen School in 1868, and took the cand.jur. in 1873. He was hired in the

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in 1873, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1886. He became a servant at the royal court from January 1899. He had been ''kammerjunker'' since 1873 and chamberlain since 1878, and was now appointed as court marshal (''hoffmarskalk''). In 1905 Norway had the personal union with Sweden dissolved, and

Haakon VII of Norway Haakon VII (; 3 August 187221 September 1957) was King of Norway from 18 November 1905 until his death in 1957. The future Haakon VII was born in Copenhagen as Prince Carl of Denmark. He was the second son of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess ...

was elected as king. Rustad became his first

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at the request from Prime Minister

Christian Michelsen Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen (15 March 1857– 29 June 1925), better known as Christian Michelsen, was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first prime minister of independent Norway from 1905 to 1907. Michelse ...

, and served as such until 1925. He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

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1852 births 1930 deaths Civil servants from Oslo {{Norway-gov-bio-stub