Carl Fredrik Holmboe (25 August 1882 – 15 January 1960) was a Norwegian engineer and business executive.

Biography

He was born in

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(now Oslo), Norway as the only son of Jens Anton Holmboe (1828-92) and his third wife Marie Aarreberg (1842-1917). He had several half-brothers and half-sisters. His grandfather

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was a priest and national politician. Holmboe studied electrical and mechanical engineering in

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. Subsequently he was a consultant for several Norwegian based companies. He first made his mark by producing the technologically advanced factory at

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for the company

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. In 1915 he was hired as chief engineer in the company

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, being promoted to technical director in 1921. He was then CEO of De-No-Fa from 1923 to 1946, except for the period between 1940 and 1946. Denofa AS later merged with

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, and is today a part of the

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References

1882 births 1960 deaths Engineers from Oslo Norwegian electrical engineers Norwegian expatriates in Germany Norwegian business executives Carl Frederik {{Norway-business-bio-stub