Aage Thor Falkanger (9 December 1902 – 4 January 1981) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in

Trondhjem Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

as a son of wholesaler Thor Falkanger (1858–1932) and Aagot Kamstrup (1872–1902). In 1933 he married curate's daughter Haldis Brun. Their son Thor Falkanger became a law professor, and

Aage Thor Falkanger Aage Thor Falkanger (born 18 February 1965) is a Norwegian judge and legal scholar. He was born in Oslo, and took the cand.jur. degree in 1990. He was a research fellow at the University of Tromsø from 1995 to 1999, and took the dr.juris degre ...

became a Supreme Court Justice at the age of 45. Aage Thor Falkanger finished his secondary education in 1921, and graduated from the

Royal Frederick University The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

with the

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degree in 1925. He was a deputy judge in Solør District Court from 1927 to 1931, secretary in the National Insurance Administration from 1931 to 1934 and police superintendent in the police districts

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

(1934–1936),

Flekkefjord is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Flekkefjord. The villages of Sira, Gyland, Rasvåg, Kirkehavn, and Åna-Sira are lo ...

(1936–1940) and

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(1940–1941). During the

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, in 1941, he was fired from his job by the occupying Nazi authorities. He fled to the United Kingdom where he was an assistant secretary for the Ministry of Justice and the Police-in-exile until 1945. From 1945 to 1946 he was a state attorney during the

legal purge in Norway after World War II The purge in Norway after World War II was a purge that took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was deemed to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country. Several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens wer ...

. He was appointed as a judge in

Hålogaland Court of Appeal The Hålogaland Court of Appeal ( no, Hålogaland lagmannsrett) is one of six courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway. The Court is located in the city of Tromsø. The court has jurisdiction over the counties of Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark as ...

in 1946, district stipendiary magistrate in

Fosen District Court Fosen District Court ( no, Fosen tingrett) was a district court in Trøndelag county, Norway. The court was based at the Fosen Tinghus in the town of Brekstad in the municipality of Ørland. The court existed from 1591 until 2021. It had jurisdic ...

in 1947 and in Stjør- and Verdal District Court in 1952. He died in January 1981 and was buried in Alstadhaug, Levanger.

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1902 births 1981 deaths People from Trondheim University of Oslo alumni Norwegian judges Norwegian civil servants Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Personnel of the legal purge in Norway 20th-century Norwegian lawyers {{Norway-law-bio-stub