Leif Grøner (12 November 1884 – 17 October 1971) was a Norwegian
banker and politician for the
Conservative Party
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.
He was born in
Bodø
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as a
dean's son. He
finished
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his secondary education in 1903, took military education for one year, and then studied law, graduating from the
Royal Frederick University with the
cand.jur.
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degree in 1908. After three years as an attorney in
Nordfjord from 1910 to 1913, he forayed into banking. He was first a bank director in
Måløy
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until 1916. After seven years in
Oslobanken he briefly moved to
Molde
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The administrative centre of the m ...
in 1923. From 1924 to 1954 he was a bank director in
Fredrikstad
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.
During the
German occupation of Norway
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, Grøner was a staff member in a local
Milorg
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branch. He was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament from
Østfold
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in 1945, but was not re-elected in 1949. Grøner did not hold local political office.
[
He was a board member of Rena Kartonfabrik and supervisory council member of Forenede Industrier, and member of the control committee in ]Norges Kommunalbank
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and Norges hypotekforening for næringslivet.[ Grøner resided at Blommenholm in his later life. He died in 1971.]
References
1884 births
1971 deaths
Norwegian bankers
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Østfold politicians
Politicians from Fredrikstad
Politicians from Bodø
Norwegian resistance members
20th-century Norwegian politicians
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