Haakon Thallaug (26 April 1903 – 1984) was a Norwegian
barrister
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.
He was born in
Lillehammer
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as a son of attorney and politician
Axel Thallaug
Axel Andreas Thallaug (15 April 1866 – 17 March 1938) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party from Lillehammer.
He received his law degree in 1889. He was a local politician from 1894 to 1938, and a member of the Parli ...
(1866–1938) and Julie Louise Augusta Prytz (1877–1929). In 1929 he married Ingeborg Benedicte Hagerup Thoresen, daughter of ship-owner
Ole Røed Thoresen.
He
finished
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his secondary education in 1922 and graduated from the
Royal Frederick University with the
cand.jur.
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degree in 1928. He studied
copyright law in
Munich
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for one year, and then started as a junior solicitor in Lillehammer in 1929. He partnered up with barrister Eilif Moe in 1938 in the law firm ''Thallaug og Moe'', but ran his own law firm from 1954. During the war he was imprisoned, and from 1945 to 1946 he was the acting police chief of
Oppland.
[ to 1975,][ having chaired the friends' association since 1939. He also chaired the supervisory committee of ]Aulestad
Aulestad is a farm and writer's house museum in Follebu in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located along County Road Fv255 (''Bjørnsonvegen'') between Vinstra and Hovemoen.
The farm is best known as the former residence of Karoline and Bjørn ...
from 1954 and the council of the Nansen Academy
The Nansen Academy – Norwegian Humanistic Academy ( no, Nansenskolen – Norsk Humanistisk Akademi) is a folk high school in Lillehammer, Norway.
History
Nansen Academy was founded as a humanist and anti-totalitarian institution. The school was ...
since 1966. He chaired Mesna Bruk from 1955, Lillehammer Bryggeri from 1955 to 1967 (board member since 1950), Oplandske Dampskibsselskap from 1961 to 1968 (later board member) and Mesnaliens Kursted from 1967 (board member since 1939).[ He died in 1984.][
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References
1903 births
1984 deaths
People from Lillehammer
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian expatriates in Germany
Norwegian police chiefs
20th-century Norwegian lawyers
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