Karl Olsen (27 December 1910 – 21 February 1999) was a Norwegian civil servant.
Early life
He was born in
Farsund
is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Farsund. Farsund is a coastal municipality in the far southwestern part of Norway, b ...
, and graduated as
siv.ing. from the
Norwegian Institute of Technology
The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...
.
Career
From 1962 to 1980 he served as director of the
Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads.
Before this he worked in the administration of
Bærum
Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...
municipality. From 1952 to 1956 he was president of the Norwegian Association of Civil Engineers,
an organization now known as
Tekna
The Tekna () is a semi-nomadic Sahrawi tribal confederation of Lamta Sanhaja Berber and Arab Hassani origins. Its constituents today inhabit southern Morocco and northern Western Sahara, but traditionally with wider migration routes. Nowadays, i ...
.
Private life
He resided at
Høvik
Høvik is a suburban area in the municipality of Bærum, Viken, Norway, in the Oslo metropolitan area. Mainly a residential area, its population (2005) is 4,311.
It is normal to divide Høvik into two parts; Nedre (lower) and Øvre (upper).
Hø ...
.
He died in February 1999 in Bærum.
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References
1910 births
1999 deaths
People from Farsund
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century Norwegian engineers
Norwegian civil servants
Directors of government agencies of Norway
People from Bærum
Directorate of Public Roads people
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