H. Chr. J. Borchgrevink, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician
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About H. Chr. J. Borchgrevink
- Henrik Christian Juell Borchgrevink (20 March 1891 – 15 June 1967) was a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Skien as a son of chief engineer Axel Juell Borchgrevink (1838–1902) and Laura Karoline Simonine Thorbjørnsen (1848–1899), and younger brother of civil servant Fredrik Grüner Borchgrevink.
- In 1919 he married Minnie Schibbye, a daughter of factory manager Gustav Leonard Adolf Schibbye.
- He was the father of physician Christian Fredrik Borchgrevink.He finished his secondary education in 1909 and graduated in machine engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1914.
- He worked various engineer jobs until 1917, when he became technical inspector in the insurance company Norske Lloyd.
- From 1921 he was an engineer in the company Vogt & Vogt.He was elected to Oslo city council in 1937, and was later drafted into the executive committee.
- He was a board and supervisory council member of Oslo Conservative Party.
- He chaired Brannstyret in Oslo for twenty years until 1965, and also a board member of the Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies from 1939 to 1946, Den Norske Brand-Tarifforening, Oslo Lysverker and council member of the Norwegian Fire Protection Association.He was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1965.
- He died in June 1967.
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