Peder "Per" Gram (11 September 1910 – 12 March 1984) was a Norwegian barrister. His main contributions came within

maritime law Admiralty law or maritime law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes. Admiralty law consists of both domestic law on maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between priva ...

, as chief executive officer of the

Nordisk Defence Club The Nordisk Defence Club ( no, Nordisk Skibsrederforening) is the world’s largest independent FD&D club, and is operating worldwide. It was established in Copenhagen in 1889 and moved to Oslo in 1891. The invitation to Nordisk's founding meetin ...

Personal life

He was a son of physician Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram (1875–1929) and art historian Irma Ingertha Schram (1873–1945). On the paternal side he was a second cousin of Gregers Gram, nephew of

Johan Fredrik Gram Johan Fredrik Gram (14 April 1868 – 27 December 1947) was a Norwegian chemist. Personal life He was born in Drammen as a son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Mads Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson of Jens J ...

, grandson of

Jens Gram Jens Gram (15 November 1840 – 22 January 1912) was a Norwegian industrialist. Personal life He was born in Ask as a son of Johan Georg Boll Gram and Fredrikke Severine Mathea Stabell. He was a brother of Andrea Gram, grandson of Jens Jensen G ...

, grandnephew of

Andrea Gram Grete Ingeborg Johanne Andrea Gram (20 March 1853 – 10 May 1927) was a Norwegian painter. She is best known for her landscapes and portraits. She was born at the family estate ''Ask gods'' in the village of Ask at Norderhov parish in Busker ...

, great-grandson of P. A. Munch and great-great-grandson of

Jens Jensen Gram Jens Jensen Gram (12 February 1779 – 2 November 1824) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was born in Copenhagen as the son of Jens Gram. He studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1798, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 180 ...

. In 1939 he married alpine skier Johanne "Hannemor" Dybwad (1918–2011), a daughter of barrister

Nils Juell Dybwad Nils Juell Dybwad (9 January 1892 – 27 June 1972) was a Norwegian barrister. He was chief executive officer of the Nordisk Defence Club for twenty-five years. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as a son of lawyer Vilhelm Dybwad and actress ...

and granddaughter of actress

Johanne Dybwad Johanne Dybwad (née Juell; 2 August 1867 – 4 March 1950) was a Norwegian stage actress and stage producer. She was the leading actress in Norwegian theatre for half a century. Early and personal life Johanne was born in Christiania (now ...

.Johanne Dybwad's profile at Sports Reference.com
/ref> Their daughter

Kari Garmann Kari Garmann (née Gram; born 16 June 1945) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. She was born in Oslo as a daughter of barrister Peder "Per" Gram and alpine skier Johanne "Hannemor" Gram, née Dybwad. Her paternal grandparents ...

became a politician.

Career

He finished his secondary education in 1928 and

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in 1929, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

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degree in 1934. He was a junior solicitor in Oslo from 1935 to 1936, law clerk in London from 1936 to 1939 and then secretary in the

from 1939. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he fled to Sweden and was a secretary at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm's Administration Office from 1943 to 1944, then at the Nortraship branch office from 1945. He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945 for war efforts. Gram specialized in

and freight law. He issued the scholarly books ''Fraktavtaler og deres tolkning'' in 1948 and ''Sjølovene på engelsk'' in 1950. In 1953 and 1963 he published registries of recent Nordic verdicts within maritime law. The first volume covered the period 1940–1951, the second covered the period 1952–1961. He was a lecturer at ''Oslo Shippingskole'' from 1947 to 1950 and censor for law candidates at the University of Oslo from 1950. He was also a member of the state's Maritime Law Commission from 1957 to 1981. From 1949 he practised law as a barrister, with access to working with

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cases. He was also a secretary in the Norwegian Maritime Law Association from 1948 to 1963, thereafter a board member of the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law. However his main work was still as the secretary in the Nordisk Defence Club, where he was promoted to assisting director in 1958 and chief executive officer in 1960. He retired in 1978, but continued as a consultant, as well as partner since 1979 in the law firm ''Gram, Hambro & Garman''. Gram was decorated as a Knight, First Class 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 ...

and Commander of the Order of Vasa. He died in March 1984, and was buried in Norderhov.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gram, Per 1910 births 1984 deaths University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian lawyers Norwegian legal scholars Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Commanders of the Order of Vasa