Kai Ludvig Jakob Knagenhjelm (28 August 1898 – 30 May 1987) was a Norwegian civil servant.

Personal life

He was born in

Trondhjem Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is t ...

as a son of barrister Arthur Knagenhjelm (1866–1938) and Barbara Ihlen (1870–1953). On the maternal side he was a grandson of Jacob Thurmann Ihlen and Belgian citizen Ambrosine Pauline Rouquet.Genealogical entry
for Arthur Sophus Nicolay Knagenhjelm On the paternal side he was a nephew of

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Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm. The Knagenhjelm family had resided in

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in recent times, and had been ennobled in 1721, then under the name ''Knagenhielm''. Through his grandmother Selma Angelique Lousie Roll he was a great-grandson of mayor Jacob Roll and grandnephew of Oluf Nicolai Roll, Karl Jacob Roll and

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he married Ragnhild Sverdrup Fearnley, born 1916. She was a daughter of Ragnhild Sverdrup, who was a second cousin of

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Career

He finished his secondary education in 1916, and graduated with the

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degree in 1922. He was a deputy judge from 1922 to 1924, then a junior solicitor from 1925 to 1928. He was hired in the

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in 1930, and advanced to assistant secretary in 1934. In 1940 he was hired in the Ministry of Provisioning. He became deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Local Government in 1945, and served as the highest-ranking civil servant in the ministry, permanent under-secretary of state, from 1966 to 1968. He chaired Salomons Skofabrik and was a supervisory council member of

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and Andresens Bank. He died in May 1987 and was buried in

Vestre gravlund Vestre Gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway. It is located next to the Borgen (station), Borgen metro station. At , it is the largest cemetery in Norway. It was inaugurated in September 1902 and also contains a cremator ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knagenhjelm, Kai 1898 births 1987 deaths Norwegian people of Belgian descent Norwegian jurists Norwegian civil servants Burials at Vestre gravlund Knagenhjelm family