Diderik Hegermann Rye (18 May 1832 – 1914) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in

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as a son of lieutenant colonel Johan Mathias Rye and Kristiane Elisabeth Gasmann.''Hvem er hvem'' 1912
/ref> He was a nephew of

Olaf Rye Olaf Rye (16 November 1791 – 6 July 1849) was a Denmark–Norway, Norwegian-Danish military officer. He died in battle during the First Schleswig War and is considered to have been a Danish war hero. Biography Olaf Rye was born at Bø, Tele ...

and

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, and brother of

Niels Mathias Rye Niels Mathias Rye (24 August 1824 – 6 February 1905) was a Norwegian politician. Biography Niels Rye was born at Bø i Telemark in 1824, as the son of Lieutenant Colonel Johan Mathias Rye (1793–1860) and Christiane Elisabeth Sparre, née Gasman ...

. In 1865 he married naval captain's daughter Kathinka Sofie Diriks (1841–1899). He graduated from the

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as an officer in 1858, and after mastering vessels for the postal service and supervising fisheries he was hired as an assistant in the Norwegian Coastal Navigation Administration in 1866. He was the director of the agency from 1882 to 1909. He chaired the

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, took part in parliamentary law commissions and was an honorary member of the Polytechnic Society and the . He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav and the

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, and a Knight of the

Order of the Polar Star The Royal Order of the Polar Star (Swedish: ''Kungliga Nordstjärneorden'') is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim. The Order of the ...

and the

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. He died in 1914.

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1832 births 1914 deaths People from Bø, Telemark Royal Norwegian Naval Academy alumni Royal Norwegian Navy personnel Directors of government agencies of Norway Commanders of the Order of Vasa Knights of the Order of the Polar Star Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog {{Norway-gov-bio-stub