Ragnar Wettre, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ragnar Wettre

Norwegian businessman

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1864

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1940

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ragnar Wettre

  • Ragnar Wettre (12 June 1864 – 1940) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Kristiania as a son of Ole Wettre (1830–1898) and Christine Elisabet Johannesen (1833–1920).
  • He was an older brother of businessman Trygve Wettre.
  • In 1892 he married British architect's daughter Janet Katie Boyer.He attended Kristiania Borger- og Realskole, and at the school's hundredth anniversary in 1912 he and two brothers donated 1000 kr (more than 50,000 in modern currency) to the school.
  • Wettre worked for the company Schee & Aas from 1879.
  • He moved to Germany in 1883 and London in 1887.
  • In 1891 he returned to Kristiania as office manager at Chr.
  • Christophersen, but from 1894 to 1912 he was a partner in the London-based company Johnsen, Jørgensen, Wettre Ltd.
  • He subsequently settled in Bekkelaget as a wholesaler.He continued building relations between Norway and Great Britain, as board member of the Norway House, London from 1920 and the Anglo-Norse Society in Kristiania from 1921.
  • He chaired the Schou Brewery from 1917 (board member since 1916), chaired Nyttevekstforeningen from 1923, was a supervisory council member of Handels- og Exportbanken.
  • Forsikringsselskapet Poseidon from 1919 and Saugbrugsforeningen from 1920 and board member of Drammen Paper Mill.
  • He also chaired the RiksmÃ¥l Society branch in Oslo.
  • In 1940 he left the Schou Brewery, Saugbrugsforeningen, and also a position as deputy board member of Lilleborg.He was decorated as a Knight of the Order of St.
  • Olav.
  • He was buried at Vestre gravlund.

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