Egil Lothe (11 May 1908 – 1990) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant. He was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

as a son of teacher Sjur Mikkelsen Lothe (1870–1941) and Sigrid Alvsaker. In 1940 he married ceramicist Gro Skavlan Arneberg (1911–1964), a daughter of renowned architect

Arnstein Arneberg Arnstein Rynning Arneberg (6 July 1882 – 9 June 1961) was a Norwegian architect. He was active professionally for 50 years and is often considered the leading architect in Norway of his time. Personal life Arnstein Rynning Arneberg was b ...

. He

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secondary school in 1927 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

cand.oecon. Candidatus oeconomices (male) or Candidata oeconomices (female), often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Education in Denmark, Danish, Háskóli Íslands, Icelandic and Higher education in Norway, Norwegian universities ...

degree in 1930. He worked as a secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1939, and later in the

Ministry of Provisioning and Reconstruction The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Provisioning and Reconstruction ( no, Forsynings- og gjenreisningsdepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry that existed from 1939 to 1950. It was established on 1 October 1939 as the Ministry of Provisioning, though h ...

from 1945 to 1948. From 1948 to 1955 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Finance. During the same period he simultaneously served as an informal State Secretary while

Olav Meisdalshagen Olav Meisdalshagen (17 March 1903 – 21 November 1959) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party best known for serving as the Norwegian Minister of Finance from December 1947 to November 1951 and as the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture ...

was

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, until 1951.Lie, 1995: pp. 139, 194 From 1955 to 1968 Lothe served as a director general of state in the Ministry of Agriculture. He was a board member of the Det Norske Luftfartselskap, Scandinavian Airlines System and

NTNF The Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( no, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Forskningsråd) or NTNF was the first of five research councils established in Norway. It existed from 1946 until the end of 1992, when the f ...

. He was decorated as a Knight of the

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and the Order of the Polar Star. He resided in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

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1908 births 1990 deaths Civil servants from Bergen University of Oslo alumni Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog Knights of the Order of the Polar Star 20th-century Norwegian economists {{Norway-economist-stub