Lars Ingier (15 February 1760 – 22 June 1828) was a Norwegian military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner.

Personal life

Ingier was born in

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as the son of military officer Hans Christophersøn Ingier and Anne Schulstad. The Ingier family hailed from the ancient Ullensaker farm Ingier, known from the Middle Ages as ''Ingigjærdi''. In 1792 he married Gjertrud Maren Juel. He died at Stubljan in Aker in 1828.

Career

Ingier graduated from the

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, with the rank of Premier Lieutenant. He then abandoned the military career and started a career in road construction. From the 1780s he was appointed road manager ( no, generalveimester) of the Diocese of Akershus, which covered most of Eastern Norway at the time. Among his road projects were the King's road through

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and a new road passing the mountain at

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. He is credited for having introduced right-hand driving in Norway, by issuing posters in 1807, and this principle was included in the Road Traffic Regulation Acts of 1824 and 1851. In 1799 he acquired the farms Stubljan and

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from his wife's aunt

Maren Juel Maren Juel (18 March 1749 – 20 February 1815) was a Norwegian landowner, regarded as the wealthiest woman in Norway at her time. She was born in Christiania (now Oslo) as the daughter of timber trader and civil servant Hans Juel (1702–17 ...

, and the family settled at Stubljan. At his estate Ingier was running four

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s, a

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, a

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mill and a

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. His wife was related to leading Christiania families, and Stubljan became the site for parties for the city's social elite. While running the activities at his estate, he retained his position as road manager. During the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 he was in command of a pioneer unit in

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, responsible for technical support. He was promoted to the rank Lieutenant Colonel ( no, oberstløytnant) in 1809. Ingier was decorated as a Knight of the Swedish

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in 1818. The Ingierstrand seaside resort in

Oppegård Oppegård is an area in Nordre Follo, Viken, Norway. Oppegård was a municipality in the former county Akershus. It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Kolbotn. The munic ...

, originally part of Stubljan and acquired by Oslo Municipality in 1936, is named after the Ingier family.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingier, Lars 1760 births 1828 deaths People from Ullensaker Norwegian Military Academy alumni Norwegian Army personnel Norwegian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Norwegian civil servants Norwegian landowners Norwegian businesspeople Knights of the Order of the Sword