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and married to Sigrid Torgersen (1885–1936) from 1905 to 1913. They divorced and she later married

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(1914 to 1924) and Emil Stang, Jr. (from 1925). Debes edited the

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publication ''

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'' in the early 1910s. He joined the

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after the party split in 1921. From 1925 he chaired the organization ''Norsk forening for sosialt arbeid''. He was a judge in

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from 1926, and published several books. In 1945 he chaired the commission that delivered a controversial document on "

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" to the

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, which was stopped by

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and never reached the

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for deliberation.

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1882 births 1945 deaths Norwegian judges Norwegian magazine editors Labour Party (Norway) politicians Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway politicians People from Kragerø {{norway-law-bio-stub