Sverre Rynning-Tønnesen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian civil servant
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About Sverre Rynning-Tønnesen
- Sverre Rynning-Tønnesen (24 April 1894 – 1970) was a Norwegian electrical engineer and civil servant. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1922, and began working in Kristiania in the same year.
- From 1945 to 1962 he served as director of Telegrafverket, which would change its name to Televerket in 1969 and Telenor in 1995.
- He had been named director already in 1942, but he was exiled in London until 1945 due to the German occupation of Norway.He was an uncle of police leader Carl M.
- Rynning-Tønnesen.
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