Johan Collett (22 November 1874 – 2 June 1969) was a Norwegian businessperson.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of Albert Peter Severin Collett (1842–1896) and Nanna Høegh (1854–1921). He was a brother of physician

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and chemist Emil Collett. He married three times. First to ship-owner's daughter Ellen Eger from 1903, but the marriage was dissolved. His second wife was director's daughter Kathleen Ragnhild Falsen, after dissolving this marriage as well he married Rosa Louise Martens in 1943. Falsen went on to marry

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Career

He graduated from Kristiania Commerce School in 1893, and took further commercial education in England and France. When his father died in 1896, at 22 years Johan Collett took over the estates Bangdalsbruket and Salsbruket. The company was run under the name Firma Albert Collett, from 1909 with Johan's brothers

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and Axel as co-owners. He was a board member of Norsk Træmassekompani, the Paper and Fibre Research Institute and the cartel Mechanical Pulp Suppliers. He was a supervisory council member of

Christiania Theater Hotel Christiania Teater – is a historic Oslo city hotel and landmark built in 1918, known primarily for the notability of its theater inside the hotel and recently its unique hotel design by Annemone Wille Waage. The 102-unit hotel is locate ...

Foreningen Norden Foreningen Norden (Norwegian and Danish), Föreningen Norden (Swedish), Norræna félagið (Icelandic), Norrøna Felagið (Faroese), Peqatigiiffik Nunat Avannarliit (Greenlandic) and Pohjola-Norden (Finnish), ''The Norden Associations'', sometimes ...

and Forsikringsselskapet Viking. In sports, he was a chairman of the golf club Oslo GK for many years. He became a member of the gentlemen's skiing club SK Fram in 1902, and was proclaimed a lifetime member in 1964. He was decorated as a Knight of the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav ( no, Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II ...

in 1951. He died in 1969 and was buried at

Vestre gravlund Vestre Gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway. It is located next to the Borgen metro station. At , it is the largest cemetery in Norway. It was inaugurated in September 1902 and also contains a crematorium (''Vestre kre ...

References

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SK Fram members Burials at Vestre gravlund