Nikolai Christian Grove Prebensen (13 April 1850 – 24 May 1938) was a Norwegian politician for the

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He was born in the town of Risør as a son of Jacob Wetlesen Prebensen (1808–1892) and Wencke Kristiane Grove. He finished his secondary education in 1868 and took the

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degree in 1873. He was hired as a clerk in the Ministry of Church Affairs in 1876, and from 1878 to 1881 he was a deputy judge in

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. He was also acting district stipendiary magistrate for some time in the absence of district stipendiary magistrate Roll. From 1881 to 1887 he was a clerk in the Ministry of Justice and the Police, before being hired as chief of police in

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in 1887. From 1889 to 1894 he served as the County Governor of Finnmark. He was the mayor of

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from 1892 to 1894, and also sat one period in the

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, from 1892 to 1894 for the constituency ''Hammerfest, Vardø og Vadsø''. He was a member of the Standing Committee on the Military. From 1896 to 1906 he served as the County Governor of Aust-Agder. He represented the constituency ''Arendal og Grimstad'' in the Parliament of Norway from 1903 to 1906. In Arendal, he gained much support for wanting to locate Arendal Station at Kittelsbukt rather than at Barbu. In his second parliamentary term, he chaired the Protocol Committee. In 1905, he chaired the "Special Committee" that prepared the establishment of a Norwegian consulate service, and thus the

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. When the union was dissolved and Norway could appoint its own diplomats, Prebensen became the ambassador ("minister") to the

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in 1906. He remained so until after the Russian October Revolution, when diplomatic ties to Russia were severed.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prebensen, Nikolai 1850 births 1938 deaths People from Risør Norwegian civil servants Norwegian judges Norwegian police chiefs County governors of Norway Mayors of places in Finnmark Aust-Agder politicians Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Ambassadors of Norway to Russia