Peter Collett Solberg (28 October 1866 – 10 December 1934) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the
Conservative Party
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. He served three terms in the
Norwegian Parliament, and played an important role in the companies
And. H. Kiær & Co and
Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri.
Early life
Collett Solberg was born on the farm Kobbervik in the parish of
Skouger in
Drammen, Norway. He was the son of businessman and politician
Svend Adolph Solberg (1831–1890) and his wife Christiane Louise Arbo (1833–1913). He finished his secondary school at
Drammen in 1884, and took the
cand.jur.
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...
degree in 1888.
[Peter Collett Solberg]
– Norwegian Social Science Data
Professional career
In 1890, Solberg was hired in the family company
And. H. Kiær & Co in
Fredrikstad
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The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 15 ...
.
He built the company into a large corporation together with three members of the Kiær family;
Elias C. Kiær
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and cousins
Hans
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and Frits Kiær.
Solberg was also among the builders of the company
Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB), and served as
chair
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of that company until his death.
Politics
Solberg was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament in 1898, representing the constituency of
Fredrikstad
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, and was re-elected in 1900 and 1904.
[ He was a member of Fredrikstad City Council from 1905 to 1907,][ and was also a member of ]Kristiania
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City Council, albeit for an unknown amount of time.[
]
Personal life
Solberg married his second cousin Anna Margrethe Kiær (1872–1963), daughter of industrialist Anders Ferrand Kiær (1825–1898) and his second wife, Martine Cappelen (1828–1875).
Halfdan Wilhelmsen
Halfdan Wilhelmsen (March 11, 1864 – November 18, 1923) was a Norwegian shipowner and consul.
Wilhelmsen was born in Tønsberg, the son of the shipowner Wilhelm Wilhelmsen and his wife Catharina Fredrikke Lorentzen.
After graduating from b ...
(1864–1923) and granddaughter of shipping magnate Wilhelm Wilhelmsen.
References
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1866 births
1934 deaths
Norwegian businesspeople
Members of the Storting
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Østfold politicians
Politicians from Drammen