Arne Meidell. Arne Meidell (17 November 1894 – 8 August 1963) was a Norwegian jurist and businessperson. He was born in

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as a son of barrister

Kristian Garup Meidell Kristian Garup Meidell, sometimes just Garup Meidell (8 May 1866 – 25 July 1926) was a Norwegian barrister. He was born in Nes i Hallingdal as a son of district stipendiary magistrate Frants Henrik Meidell and Olivia Annette Caroline Arntzen. I ...

(1866–1926) and Kristine Marie Birkeland (1871–1958). He was a maternal grandson of Supreme Court Justice

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. In 1918 he married Danish pharmacist's daughter Asta Trojel (1896–1984). He

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his education at

Frogner School Frogner School ( no, Frogner Høiere Almenskole and subsequently ''Frogner Realskole og Gymnas'', commonly known as ''Frogner skole'') was a secondary school at Frogner in Oslo, Norway. The school was a continuation of the Gjertsen School, which ...

in 1912, and graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1916. After graduation, he was a junior solicitor, then from 1925 a barrister with access to

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cases. By then he had already become a business leader. In 1922 he was hired as manager of Lilleborg Fabriker, advancing to chief executive officer in 1929. In 1933 he was hired as chief executive (director-general) in

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, where he remained until 1960. He also chaired the board of Borregaard and

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, was a board member of De-No-Fa from 1925 to 1933, Lade Fabriker from 1926 to 1933, Andresens og Bergens Kreditbank from 1928 to 1933, as well as

Sulitjelma Gruber Sulitjelma Mines ( no, Sulitjelma gruber) was a Norwegian mining company that extracted copper, pyrite, and zinc at Sulitjelma in the municipality of Fauske, Norway. Operations started with a test mine in 1887. From 1891 to 1933, the business w ...

from 1937, Norsk Cellullfabrikk, Folldal Verk, and supervisory council member of

Forsikringsaktieselskabet Norden Forsikringsselskapet Norden was a general insurance company based in Norway. It was founded as ''Brandforsikringsselskabet Norden'' on 4 April 1867, and began operating on 2 September the same year. Its first offices were located in ''Karl Johans ...

and Norges Hypotekforening for Næringslivet. He was a member of the skiing-based social club SK Fram, and served as deputy chairman from 1959 to 1960 and chairman from 1960 to 1963. He was a vice president of the

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, and in the 1930s he was a member of the council of Norges Forsvarsforening. He also served as a

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for

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from 1928 to 1933. He was decorated as a Knight of the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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, as well as a Commander with Star of the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav ( no, Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II ...

. A road has been named after him in

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, and a bust of Meidell was unveiled in the same city in 1964.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Meidell, Arne 1894 births 1963 deaths Businesspeople from Oslo People from Sarpsborg University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian lawyers 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog Knights of the Order of Vasa SK Fram members