Knut Blom, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Knut Blom

Norwegian judge

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1916

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1996

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Knut Blom

  • Knut Blom (14 February 1916 – 6 February 1996) was a Norwegian judge.
  • He served as a Supreme Court Justice from 1968 to 1986. He was born in Kristiania as a son of barrister Hans Jensen Blom (1875–1952) and Anna Martens Wingaard (1877–1947).
  • He was a great-grandson of Oluf Petersen Wingaard.
  • He finished his secondary education in 1934, started law studies and graduated with the cand.jur.
  • degree in 1939.
  • He was hired as a junior solicitor under Carl Fridtjof Rode in Melbu in the same year, and took over the attorney's office when Rode was called to naval duty shortly thereafter.
  • From 1940 to 1942 Blom was a deputy judge in Jæren District Court, and from 1942 he was a junior solicitor under Sven Arntzen; from 1947 a partner.
  • During the German occupation of Norway Blom had contacts in Hjemmefrontens Ledelse.Blom was a lawyer until 1968, and worked as a defender in Oslo City Court from 1953 to 1956, Eidsivating Court of Appeal from 1956 to 1965 and the Supreme Court of Norway from 1965 to 1968.
  • From 1968 to his retirement in 1986 he was a Supreme Court Justice.
  • Legal-academic books include Sakførerens rettslige ansvar (1947) and Prisloven med kommentarer (1954).He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945 and in 1978 the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
  • Olav.
  • He died in February 1996 in Oslo.

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