Johan Johannson (6 August 1881 – 1958) was a Norwegian businessman.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of consul-general Johan Johannson and Helga Johanne Arentz Nissen (born 1855). He was a brother of Ole Hartvig Nissen Johannson. He was a maternal grandson of school founder Hartvig Nissen, and thereby a nephew of Per Schjelderup Nissen and Henrik Nissen; and second cousin of prison director Hartvig Nissen and

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. In 1918 he married Lili Jacobsen, daughter of the district physician in

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, Hans August Jacobsen.

Career

He finished his secondary education in 1901, and took the

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in 1906. He was hired in the family company Joh. Johannson in 1908, and was a partner from 1917 to 1933. In 1933 he became manager of

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, retiring in 1945. He was also a consul-general for the

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from 1916 to 1918. He was a chair of

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, board member of the Det Søndenfjelds-Norske Dampskibsselskab from 1924, and was deputy chair of the supervisory council of Christiania Søforsikringsselskap from 1931. He chaired ''Colonialgrossistenes Landsforening'' from 1922 to 1925, ''Norges Grossistforbund'' from 1923 and ''Norges Kreditorforbund'' from 1931 to 1933. He was a board member of Oslo Port Authority from 1929, and deputy member of the

Appeals Selection Committee of the Supreme Court of Norway The Appeals Selection Committee of the Supreme Court (in Norwegian Høyesteretts ankeutvalg) was originally a court of Norway in its own right, however, it does not anymore constitute an instance – a case will be decided upon ''either'' by th ...

. He was decorated as an Officer of the Romanian Order of the Crown. He died in April 1958, following a long-term illness.

References

1881 births 1958 deaths Businesspeople from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Officers of the Order of the Crown (Romania) {{Norway-business-bio-stub