Gerhard Charles Kallevig (27 July 1880 – 9 August 1964) was a Norwegian businessman in transport and insurance.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of director August Kallevig (1851–1924) and Wenche von der Lippe Mowinckel (1857–1939). He was a brother of Arthur and Waldemar Kallevig. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Bishop

Jacob von der Lippe Jacob von der Lippe (27 September 1797 – 2 October 1878) was a Norwegian politician and priest who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand from 1841 to 1875. He was also a member of the Parliament of Norway for a total of eig ...

and a first cousin once removed of

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. His sister Kirsten Antoinette married

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, and his niece Amélie married

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. Gerhard Kallevig was himself married to Vera Tschudi, a daughter of

Anton Tschudi Anton Tschudi (12 April 1848 – 1914) was a Norwegian landowner. He was born in Tønsberg and was of Swiss descent. His father, Peter Tschudi (1812–1900) owned the Valløe farm in Sem Municipality, outside of the city of Tønsberg. His sister Cl ...

Career

Gerhard C. Kallevig took commercial education in

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and

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, stayed in

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and Northern Sweden and also worked in Germany for one year before starting his own trade firm in 1900. The firm traded in wine and timber, and sold

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. He was a business partner with J. Mølbach-Thellefsen from 1906 to 1907. He then started the companies Automobil-Compagniet in 1908 and Aurora Auto Co. in 1911, and was a pioneer in establishing bus routes in Norway. He established the routes

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and

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. He was reportedly the fifteenth person to get a

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in Norway, and the first to cross the

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mountain range by car. He sold Aurora in 1931. In 1911 he also established the insurance company Forsikringsselskabet Viking, and worked as chief executive officer. In 1926 the company acquired Norsk Reassuranceselskab and Forsikringsselskapet Minerva, and Kallevig later bought a majority in Kredittinstituttet. In 1956 he retired as chief executive of Viking. He continued as chairman of the supervisory council until 1961. He was a founding member of the gentlemen's skiing club SK Fram in 1889, of which he received lifetime membership in 1961. He was also a member of the exclusive Det Norske Selskab and Christiania Jægerklub av 1873 clubs. He died on 9 August 1964.

References

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