Frederik Moltke Bugge (6 October 1923 – 2001) was a Norwegian barrister and businessperson.

Personal life

Bugge was born in

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, son of barrister Wilhelm Bugge and Gudrun Gundersen, brother of Supreme Court Justice Jens Bugge, grandson of barrister Fredrik Moltke Bugge, great-grandson of bishop Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge, great-great-grandson of educator

Frederik Moltke Bugge Frederik Moltke Bugge (23 September 1806 – 9 July 1853) was a Norwegian philologist and educator. Early and personal life Bugge was born in Trondhjem as a son of bishop Peter Olivarius Bugge (1764–1849) and Cathrine Magdalene Koch (1771–186 ...

and great-great-great-grandson of bishop Peter Olivarius Bugge. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of bishop

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and second cousin of Hanne Heuch.''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912
/ref> In 1949 he married Mary Baldwin Gundersen, a physician's daughter and native of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The couple had two daughters and two sons, born between 1950 and 1959. They resided at

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, later at Montebello.

Career

Bugge

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his secondary education in 1941. During the

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, he fled the country for

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enrolling in the Norwegian police troops from1944 to 1945 and decorated with the

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. After the war he graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1947, and after studying French and history at the

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in 1948, he served one year as a deputy judge in

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. He then spent a few years in the United States, working for Alcoa Steamship Company from 1949 to 1951. He took a translator's exam that year, and spent the following two years as consultant for the

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. In 1953 he was hired as a solicitor in the law firm ran by his father and

Peter Platou Stabell Peter Platou Stabell (12 August 1908 – 10 March 1992) was a Norwegian barrister. He was born in Kolbu as a son of attorney Bernhard Dunker Stabell (1878–1929) and Dorothea Antoinette Platou (1883–1964). In 1948 he married American citizen Do ...

; Stabell was later succeeded by Erling Christiansen. Bugge was created partner in the firm in 1958, but in 1966 he joined Lars Arentz-Hansen and Knut Rasmussen to establish the new law firm Bugge, Arentz-Hansen og Rasmussen (BA-HR). BA-HR became one of Norway's most prestigious law firms. Bugge retired in 1991. Bugge chaired

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from 1965 to 1980, Norsk Aluminium Company,

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, Volvo Norge and

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, and was a board member of Standard Telefon og Kabelfabrik, Årdal og Sunndal Verk, Fabritius Gruppen and Ilmenittsmelteverket in Tyssedal. He was a supervisory council member of ''

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'', deputy supervisory council member of

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and corporate council member of Storebrand-Norden. He died in March 2001.

References

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