Per Christian Cornelius Paus (born 28 April 1910 in

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, died 15 December 1986) was a Norwegian steel industrialist and lawyer.

Background

He was a member of the patrician

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and was a son of the steel industrialist Christopher Blom Paus and a grandson of the steel industrialist

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, who founded the Ole Paus steel company in 1872. In 1937 Per Paus married Countess Hedevig

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, a daughter of Lord Chamberlain

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. They acquired the estate

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from her parents in 1948; Esviken had been the summer residence of the Wedel-Jarlsberg family and

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often visited there in his father-in-law's lifetime. Per and Hedevig Paus were the parents of Cornelia Paus, ship-owner and investor Christopher Paus, and oil and gas investor Peder Paus.

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, one of the main owners of

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since 1978, is their daughter-in-law. The designer

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is their granddaughter.

Career

Per Paus was educated as lawyer and graduated with the

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(LL.M.) degree at the

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in 1934. He also studied French at

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in Paris. He was employed by the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company in England from 1936 and joined his family's company Ole Paus as a partner in 1939. He succeeded his father as managing director and sole owner in 1951. He was a board member of the Steel Wholesalers' Association and a member of the council of

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."Paus, Per," in ''Næringslivets menn i Norden'', 1950, p. 966

References

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1910 births 1986 deaths Businesspeople from Oslo University of Oslo alumni College of Sorbonne alumni