Eivind Erichsen (28 January 1917 – 21 January 2005) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant.

Life and career

He was born in

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as a son of postmaster Erik Emanuel Erichsen (1884–1963) and Petra Antoine Olsen (1885–1930). In May 1944 he married Ingrid Holmboe. She was a great-grandniece of Bernt Michael and

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. The couple had two children. Erichsen graduated from the

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in 1943 with the

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degree. This was during the

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, and he was imprisoned in Bredtveit concentration camp from 15 October 1943, then in

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from 29 October 1943 to 16 April 1944. He then worked in

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to 1945, in the

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from 1945 to 1947 and as a consultant in the Ministry of Finance and Customs in 1947. In 1948 he succeeded

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as a subdirector in the

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. In 1951 the idea of appointing Erichsen as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance was discussed, but it did not happen. In 1952 Erichsen was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance. Following a stint as a director in the

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from 1956 to 1957, he returned to Norway to serve as permanent under-secretary of State of the Ministry of Finance from 1957 to 1986. He edged out the other applicants, Einar Grøstad and

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, partly due to him being an economist and the other two being jurists. He had another leave of absence from 1967 to 1968, when he worked with planning in

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. He also chaired '' Statens Friluftsråd'' from 1965 to 1982. A

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was issued on his seventieth birthday, and in 1999 Erichsen released the retrospective ''Glimt fra et langt liv i Finansdepartementet''. He died in January 2005 in Oslo. He was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav in 1982.

References

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