Jørgen Magnus Finne-Grønn (30 July 1905 – 3 October 1998) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Kristiania as a son of genealogist

Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn (31 August 1869 – 1 November 1963) was a Norwegian lawyer, archivist, genealogist and museum director. Biography He was born in the town of Risør in Aust-Agder, Norway. He was the son of engineer Samuel Grønn ( ...

(1869–1953) and Margrethe Borchgrevink (1873–1963). He was a brother of painter Hans Finne-Grønn and a grandson of Sofie Borchgrevink. 1947 he married Margareta Christiansen, a daughter of businessperson Christian Christiansen. He finished his secondary education in 1924, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

degree in 1931. He started working in the

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Norwegian (Bokmål): ''Det kongelige utenriksdepartement''; Norwegian (Nynorsk): ''Det kongelege utanriksdepartement'') is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on Ju ...

in the same year, and he was stationed as a secretary at the consulate in Marseille from 1933 to 1934, the legation in Ankara from 1934 to 1936, in Norway from 1936 to 1937, in New York City in 1937, the legation in London from 1941 to 1946, and in Brussels from 1946. He became an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1948. He was the Norwegian ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Hungary from 1952 to 1958, to Chile, Peru and

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from 1960 to 1966, and Portugal from 1966 to 1975. During his time as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, there was a spying scandal. Czechoslovak citizen Vladimír Veselý was convicted for spying for Norway, and sentenced to 25 years of prison. Veselý had allegedly had contact with Norwegian intelligence officer

Einar Nord Stenersen Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mytholog ...

, who had indeed been dispatched to the Norwegian embassy, officially to locate surveillance bugs (which he did), but Finne-Grønn was aware of the clandestine nature of Stenersen's work. Finne-Grønn was decorated as a Commander 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 ...

(1967) and the Order of the Polar Star, Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Ecuador and held the Grand Cross of the Order of the Merit of Chile. He died in October 1998 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.

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