Morits Skaugen Jr.
Morits Skaugen Jr. (born 17 December 1955) is a Norwegian businessperson. In 1988 his father and uncle managed to buy the company A/S Kosmos and merge it into their family company Eikland. Skaugen received control over the family company I. M. Skaugen in 1990, whereas his cousin Brynjulf Skaugen Jr. was given control over a new branch named B. Skaugen. He is now the CEO of I. M. Skaugen. He is married to Grace Reksten Skaugen. Relatives include Isak Martinius Skaugen, Morits Skaugen and Brynjulf Skaugen, Sr. Skaugen has supplied money for the Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P .... References 1955 births Living people Norwegian businesspeople in shipping {{Norway-business-bio-stub ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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A/S Kosmos
A/S Kosmos was a shipping and industrial company from Sandefjord. It was founded in 1928 by Anders Jahre, Svend Foyn Bruun, Sr. and Anton Barth von der Lippe as Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos A/S. In 1949 Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos A/S (A/S Kosmos) and its sister company Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos II A/S (A/S Kosmos II) were fused to make the company A/S Kosmos. In 1986, the brothers Arne and Wilhelm Blystad sought to take control of the company, without luck. Two other brothers, Morits and Brynjulf Skaugen, Jr., took control of Kosmos two years later, and split up the company. The shipping arm of the company was taken over by I. M. Skaugen and Color Line. From 1978 to 1989, Bjørn Bettum Bjorn (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less oft ... was the administrative director of Kosmos. ...
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Brynjulf Skaugen Jr
Brynjulf is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Brynjulf Bjarme (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright and theater director *Brynjulf Blix (born 1951), Norwegian pianist *Brynjulf Bull (1906–1993), Norwegian lawyer, Supreme Court advocate, and politician *Brynjulf Rivenes Brynjulf Rivenes (July 4, 1874 – December 21, 1929), generally known as B. Rivenes, was a Norwegian-American architect practicing in Miles City, a city in sparsely settled eastern Montana. Biography Rivenes was born in Norway in 1874, an ...

Hilmar Reksten
Hilmar August Reksten (29 October 1897 – 1 July 1980) was a Norwegian shipping magnate. In the autumn of 1973 he was counted among the world's richest men, possessing a fleet worth about £300,000,000. At his death in 1980, all was lost; he left behind a debt of about £100,000,000. Background Hilmar Reksten grew up in a small flat at Nordnes, a central quarter of Bergen. He was the eldest of three siblings; there was a younger brother called Hjalmar (1900–1961), and a sister, Sofie. Their mother, Helene Monsen Søndervåg (1869–1902), died when Reksten was only four years old. His father, Erik Reksten (1873–1963), was a stoker and later engineer, spending most of his time out to sea. He sent home money for the children's support. It was not until 1907 that Reksten senior had saved up enough money to stay more at home with his motherless children. The same year he married Hanna Gregoriussen, whom Reksten later began calling "mother", and who created a good home for he ...
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Isak Martinius Skaugen
Isak Martinius Skaugen (17 August 1875 – 26 December 1962), was a Norway, Norwegian businessperson. He was a sea captain by profession. In 1916 in Risør he founded the shipping company which still exists under the name I. M. Skaugen. His sons Sigurd, Brynjulf Skaugen, Sr., Brynjulf and Morits Skaugen, Sr., Morits were taken on board as partners in 1952, and the brothers (Sigurd died in 1975) later controlled the company. The company was passed on to the third generation represented by Morits Skaugen, Jr. and Brynjulf Skaugen, Jr., and split in two, in 1990. The Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue vessel RS ''Kaptein Skaugen'' was named after Isak Martinius Skaugen, and given to the Society by Morits and Brynjulf Skaugen. References

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Morits Skaugen
Morits Skaugen Sr. (27 June 1920 – 17 January 2005) was a Norwegian yacht racer and businessperson. He was born in Risør, but as a sailor he represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club in Oslo. He competed as a sailor in the Summer Olympics in 1948, 1952 and 1964. Skaugen was a son of Isak Martinius Skaugen, and worked for his father's company I. M. Skaugen from 1947. Together with his brothers Sigurd and Brynjulf he was taken on board as partners in 1952, and the brothers later controlled the family company. For about twenty years they also co-owned Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. He retired in 1990. In that year, I. M. Skaugen was taken over by Morits Skaugen Jr., and a branch named B. Skaugen was taken over by Brynjulf Skaugen Jr. During the Second World War he was a member of the resistance movement in Norway from 1940 to 1943, then worked out of Stockholm at ''Sambandskontoret'' from 1943 to 1945, then for Nortraship in London from 1945 to 1947. He co-founded and ch ...
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Brynjulf Skaugen, Sr
Brynjulf is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Brynjulf Bjarme (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright and theater director *Brynjulf Blix (born 1951), Norwegian pianist *Brynjulf Bull (1906–1993), Norwegian lawyer, Supreme Court advocate, and politician *Brynjulf Rivenes Brynjulf Rivenes (July 4, 1874 – December 21, 1929), generally known as B. Rivenes, was a Norwegian-American architect practicing in Miles City, a city in sparsely settled eastern Montana. Biography Rivenes was born in Norway in 1874, an ...

Conservative Party (Norway)
The Conservative Party or The Right ( nb, Høyre, nn, Høgre, , H; se, Olgešbellodat) is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway. It is the major party of the Norwegian centre-right, and was the leading party in government as part of the Solberg cabinet from 2013 to 2021. The current party leader is former Prime Minister Erna Solberg. The party is a member of the International Democrat Union and an associate member of the European People's Party. The party is traditionally a pragmatic and moderately conservative party strongly associated with the traditional elites within the civil service and Norwegian business life. During the 20th century, the party has advocated economic liberalism, tax cuts, individual rights, support of monarchism, the Church of Norway and the Armed Forces, anti-communism, pro-Europeanism, and support of the Nordic model; over time, the party's values have become more socially liberal in areas such as gender equality, LGBT rights, and immigrati ...
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1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ...
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