Olaf Trampe Kindt (17 March 1913 – 19 May 1995) was a Norwegian barrister.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of engineer Fredrik Christopher Trampe Kindt (1885–1913) and Ellen Getz (1887–1973). His mother, who was a sister of

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, was married to insurance director Nicolay Lysholm Bugge from 1918. His sister Johanne was married to physician Odd Bjercke. In 1940 he married Kari Sandberg, a daughter of Major

Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (21 July 1900 – 26 August 1985) was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Centre Party. He chaired the Norwegian Agrarian Association from 1951 to 1955 and was a member of Parliament from 1957 to 1965. Personal ...

Career

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his secondary education in 1931 and graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1937. After staying abroad for one year he was a deputy judge in Sør-Hedmark District Court from 1939 to 1940 and attorney at Otta from 1941 to 1944. After the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

, he was decorated with the

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for resistance, and from 1945 to 1948 he worked as a

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in the post-war legal purge in Oppland. In 1947 he became a partner in the law firm ''Mortensen, Eger & Manner'' together with Adolf Eger and Erling Manner. From 1948 he was a barrister with access to work with Supreme Court cases. He later partnered with Erik Bryn, Roar Bjerknes and Bjørn Eggen in their law firm, which became known as ''Bryn, Bjerknes, Wahl-Larsen & Co''. He was secretary-general of ''Norges Akademikersamband'' (a forerunner of Akademikernes Fellesorganisasjon) from 1951 and chairman from 1965 to 1969. He was a board member of Oslo Bar Association from 1949 to 1954 as well as the companies Norsk Farmasøytisk-kjemisk Astra, Wallco and Norsk Landbruk. After retiring in 1976 he retreated to the rural manor Hedemarksvollen in

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, near the birthplace of his wife. He died on 19 May 1995 at the age of 82.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kindt, Olaf Trampe 1913 births 1995 deaths People from Trondheim University of Oslo alumni Personnel of the legal purge in Norway 20th-century Norwegian lawyers