Alf Frydenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian civil servant
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Place of Birth: Furnes, Hedmark, Norway
About Alf Frydenberg
- Alf Birger Frydenberg (2 May 1896 – 14 May 1989) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Furnes as a son of Bernt Frydenberg (1868–1925) and Benedicte Charlotte Christiansen (1872–1953).
- In 1931 he married Major's daughter Marie Catharina Knap.
- He studied from 1917 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1921.
- He worked in the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1921 to 1947, except for 1925 to 1926 when he was a deputy judge in Hadeland and Land District Court, and from 1939 to 1940 when he was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Provisioning and Reconstruction.
- In the Ministry of Social Affairs he was a clerk from 1921, assistant secretary from 1936 and deputy under-secretary of state from 1940.
- As deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Social Affairs.
- He was responsible for the proposition of deporting German-Norwegian war children to Australia.
- He was then the County Governor of Vest-Agder from 1948 to 1954 and the County Governor of Hedmark from 1954 to 1966.He was active in the organizations Østlandsk reising and Østlandsk ungdomsfylking (chair from 1926 to 1927).
- From 1923 to 1926 he edited their magazine Østaglett.
- Their goal was to incorporate Eastern Norwegian spoken language into the country's official written language.
- While living in Vest-Agder, he chaired the Kristiansand branch of Foreningen Norden from 1951 to 1954.
- While living in Hedmark, he chaired Hedmark Museum and Domkirkeodden from 1955, and Hamar/Elverum Hospital from 1964 to 1968.
- He was a board member of Opplandskraft from 1954 to 1966.
- He was a member of several other councils during his career, and was involved in arbitration.He died in May 1989 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.
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