Klaus Serck-Hanssen (5 April 1886 – 28 August 1980) was a Norwegian engineer and mining executive.

Personal life

Serck-Hanssen was born in

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, a son of physician and politician Klaus Hanssen and Dorothea Marstrand Serck. He married Gunvor Quenild in 1921. Among their children was Arne Serck-Hanssen (born 1925), a competitive sportsperson who participated at the

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Career

Serck-Hanssen graduated with a

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degree in shipbuilding from the TH Charlottenburg in 1911. From 1912 he initiated a career in the mining industry. He was manager of the Vigsnes Copperworks at

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from 1914 to 1920. From 1920 to 1938 he was assistant manager at the

Orkla Mining Company Orkla Mining Company Ltd. () was a Norwegian mining company established in 1904. The company was the largest mining company in Norway in the aftermath of World War I, and was among the world's largest pyrite producers. After closing of the mining ...

. From 1939 to 1954 he managed the Skorovass Gruber in

Skorovatn Skorovatn is a village in Namsskogan Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The old Skorovas Gruber Mining, mine is here, but it closed in 1984. Skorovatn is located right on the border with Røyrvik Municipality, just south of the lake Tunns ...

. During the

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he was arrested by the Nazi authorities in April 1942, and held in the prison at

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, at

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and the

Grini concentration camp Grini prison camp (, ) was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945. Ila Detention and Security Prison is now located here. History Grini was originally built as a women's prison, near an old croft ...

until the war ended. His son Arne was also held at Grini. He died in August 1980 and was buried at

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References

1886 births 1980 deaths Engineers from Bergen 20th-century Norwegian engineers Norwegian businesspeople in mining Technische Universität Berlin alumni Grini concentration camp survivors {{Norway-engineer-stub