Erling Sandene (7 April 1921 – 5 March 2015) was a Norwegian judge and civil servant.
Early and family life
He was born 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 ...
, a son of Jensine Sæther (1887–1981) and her schoolteacher husband Johan Sandene (1885–1945). Sandene married Erna Harbitz Torstenson in 1949 and they remained married until her death in 1986.
He enrolled as a student in 1940, and graduated as
cand.jur.
Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries.
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in 1943 after only three years. He was also involved in the
Norwegian resistance movement
The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian: ''Motstandsbevegelsen'') to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:
*Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, ...
.
Career
In 1945 Sandene began his legal career as a deputy judge in
Eidsvoll
Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sundet.
General information
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, where he helped handle the postwar
legal purge. In 1946 Sandene began working in the
Ministry of Justice and the Police.
[ He was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1962.]Supreme Court Justice
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beginning in 1972 as well as Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman
The Norwegian Parliamentary Ombud (), formerly the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman (), is the ombudsman appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to safeguard the rights of individual citizens in their dealings with all levels of the public administ ...
from 1974 to 1982. From 1984 to 1991, Sandene was the 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.[
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Death and honors
Sandene died on March 5, 2015. During his lifetime (1982), Sandene was appointed a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav in 1982, and was also a freemason
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
.
References
1921 births
2015 deaths
People from Bærum
Parliamentary ombudspersons in Norway
County governors of Norway
Directors of government agencies of Norway
Chief justices of Norway
Norwegian resistance members
Personnel of the legal purge in Norway
Norwegian Freemasons
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