Hans Clarin Hovind Mustad (22 November 1871 – 1 January 1948) was a Norwegian businessman.

Personal life

He was born in

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as the son of

Hans Mustad Hans Mustad (26 January 1837 – 27 February 1918) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was instrumental in shaping the company O. Mustad & Søn. Mustad was born in Vardal as the son of Ole Hovelsen Mustad. He was a brother of Kristian Mauri ...

and Clara Laurentse Marie Henriette Mustad (born Hovind). On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Hieronymus Heyerdahl, and on the paternal side he was a grandson of

Ole Hovelsen Mustad Ole Hovelsen Mustad (12 March 1810 – 24 February 1884) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician. He was instrumental in shaping the company O. Mustad & Søn, and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament. Biography He was born in Vardal ...

, great-grandson of

Hans Schikkelstad Hans Hansen Schikkelstad (4 September 1789 – 29 March 1843) was a Norwegian farmer, businessperson and politician. He was the founder of the business which became O. Mustad & Søn. Hans Schikkelstad was born in the parish of Vardal in the pre ...

, nephew of

Kristian Mauritz Mustad Kristian Mauritz Mustad (28 February 1848 – 26 December 1913) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1883, representing the constituency of Kristians Amt. He was re-elected in 1886, 1889 ...

and cousin of

Sigbjørn Mustad Sigbjørn Mustad (19 April 1897 – 30 October 1970) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Vardal as a son of Kristian Mauritz Mustad (1848–1913) and Maren Haugsrud (1860–1917). He was elected ...

. Clarin Mustad married Nathalia Fischer Schneider (1881–1936).Genealogy for Elma Anne Lise Kielland
/ref> In 1912 he bought the property

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, between

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and

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in Bærum. One of their daughters Elma Anne Lise became a horse rider, and married a man of the Kielland family. His daughter Clara married Jacob Moestue, in a wedding attended by

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and

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. His daughter Nathalia, nicknamed Oja, was married to

Tomm Murstad Tomm Murstad (2 July 1915 – 19 January 2001) was a Norwegian skier, coach and business man. He was born in Fredrikstad as a son of physician Hjalmar Murstad (1883–1940) and Elisabeth Korneliussen (1887–1968). He grew up at Vinderen. He wa ...

from 1941 to 1963.

Career

Mustad

He took his secondary education in Kristiania from 1884 to 1888, and a technical education in Trondhjem from 1888 to 1889 and in the Technikum Mittweida from 1889 to 1892. He then became manager of the factory Duclair in France. Together with his four brothers, he joined his father as co-owner of the company O. Mustad & Søn in 1905. The company had been passed from his great-grandfather through the generations, and grown significantly since its beginnings in Vardal. In 1875, the company had expanded with a new factory at

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in Kristiania, followed in 1889 by a foundry at the same place as well as a new margarine factory. In addition, the company expanded abroad.History
- Mustad Eiendom When Hans Mustad died in 1918, his sons inherited the largest industrial company in Norway, with 2,000 domestic employees as well as several factories abroad. The expansion continued after 1918, and the company eventually became the world's largest producer of fish hooks. Despite the ownership change, the name O. Mustad & Søn was kept. After Clarin's death, however, it was converted to a limited company (1970) and split into different branches (1977 and 1997).

Automobile pioneer

Clarin Mustad was also involved in the emerging

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. Having travelled by car for the first time in 1892, during a stay abroad, he conducted his first car travel on Norwegian soil in 1906. During the trip, from Kristiania to Aandalsnes, he passed several hundred horses, and stopped the engine as to not frighten the animals. Using an external handle to start the engine, he grew tired of this and invented a system with which the driver could ignite the engine from the driver's seat. In 1917 he was behind the manufacturing of the ''Mustad'' car. However, only one car was produced, followed by another in 1935. The first was a very large vehicle with six wheels, nicknamed ''the giant'', the second was small with only one seat, nicknamed ''the egoist''. The former car was equipped with directional headlamps, which would become more widespread later. It was a part of an automobile exposition in Paris in 1922. Both cars are now on exhibition at the Norwegian Museum of Historic Vehicles in

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. In addition, Clarin Mustad bought the first car in Norway, a Benz & Cie. Phaeton car imported in 1895, when it was taken out of traffic. He gave the car to the interest group KNA in 1929; it is now on exhibit in the

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.Norges første importerte bil: Benz Phaeton fra 1895
- Biblioteknett.no Mustad was decorated as a Knight First Class 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 ...

in 1911.

References

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