Sigurd Arthur Aalefjær (14 September 1917 – 10 March 1991) was a Norwegian engineer, civil servant and director of Norwegian hydropower plants. He was born in

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as a son of Wilhelm Torjussen Aalefjær (1881–1969) and Inger Larsen Kostøl (1890–1975); the family soon moved to

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, Norway. He married Magda Synnøve Berg (1920–2002) in 1943. He resided and died in

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. He finished his secondary education at

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in 1937 and graduated as a construction engineer from the

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during 1941. He worked for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Agency from 1942 to 1946, Drammens Elektrisitetsverk from 1946 to 1949 and the Water Resources and Energy Agency again from 1949. From 1960 to his retirement in 1984 he was the director of Statskraftverkene (now ''Statkraft''). He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

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in 1983.

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1917 births 1991 deaths Norwegian expatriates in the United States People from Bend, Oregon People from Vennesla People educated at Kristiansand Cathedral School Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni 20th-century Norwegian civil servants 20th-century Norwegian engineers {{Norway-engineer-stub