Carl Alexander Wendt (13 January 1923 – 2006) was a
Norwegian police leader and
civil servant.
He was born in
Mandal, and took the
cand.jur. degree in 1948. After spending the years 1967 to 1982 as chief of police in
Sør-Varanger
Sør-Varanger ( sme, Máttá-Várjjat, fkv, Etelä-Varenki, fi, Etelä-Varanki, russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер/Syor-Varánger) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town ...
,
Bodø and
Stavanger, he served as
Governor of Svalbard
The governor of Svalbard ( no, Sysselmesteren på Svalbard) represents the Norwegian government in exercising its sovereignty over the Svalbard archipelago (Spitsbergen).
The position reports to the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, but it mai ...
from 1982 to 1985 and chief of police in Stavanger from 1986 to 1988.
References
Norwegian police chiefs
Governors of Svalbard
People from Mandal, Norway
1923 births
2006 deaths
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