Hans Kristian Engen (22 August 1912 – 6 April 1966) was a Norwegian journalist, diplomat and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

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. During the

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from 1940 to 1945, he was a coordinator of the cooperation with the Norwegian government-in-exile and the

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. From 1946 to 1949 he worked as the foreign affairs editor of newspaper ''

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''. From 1951 to 1952 he worked as Norway's counsellor of embassy at the

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; he was then ambassador to the UN to 1958. From 1958 to 1963, under

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, Engen served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Finally, he was Norwegian ambassador to the United States from 1963 to 1966.

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1912 births 1966 deaths People from Ringebu Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian resistance members Norwegian state secretaries Ambassadors of Norway to the United States Norwegian expatriates in the United States Permanent Representatives of Norway to the United Nations 20th-century Norwegian writers Place of death missing 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub