Sigurd Juell Lorentzen (5 August 1916 – 25 January 1979) was a Norwegian judge and civil servant.
He was born in
Sunndal
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, and was a brother of professor
Gustav Fredrik Lorentzen. He married judge Lelia
Marie Loe in 1957. They resided in
Bærum
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.
He enrolled as a student in 1934,
[ graduated with the ]cand.jur.
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...
degree in 1938, and worked as a secretary in ''Trustkontrollkontoret'' from 1939 to 1940 and in the Norwegian Price Directorate
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from 1940 to 1945. After a brief time in the Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance.
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in 1945,[Lie, 1995: p. 198] he returned to the Price Directorate and remained here until 1949. He was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance from 1951 to 1960, permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Transport
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from 1960 to 1972 and a Supreme Court Justice
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from 1972 to 1979.[
When hired as deputy under-secretary in 1951, Lorentzen edged out applicants who were generally believed to be better qualified, especially Einar Grøstad. This was a personal decision by ]Minister of Finance
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Trygve Bratteli
(11 January 1910 – 20 November 1984) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician with the Norwegian Labour Party. He served as the 26th prime minister of Norway from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1973 to 1976. He was president of the No ...
. Lorentzen was the youngest of the applicants, and the second youngest permanent under-secretary in the Ministry at the time.[ He was also known to be, as a person, quite similar to Trygve Bratteli. He became quite strong; historian Einar Lie has noted that "in reality", the permanent under-secretary of state ]Friedrich Georg Nissen
Friedrich Georg Nissen (28 October 1887 - 1969) was a Norwegian civil servant.
He was born in Bergen, and was a cand.jur. by education. He was hired in the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1915, and was promoted to subdirector in 1919. In 1924 he c ...
did not function "as a real superior to Lorentzen". In 1957, both Grøstad and Lorentzen applied to become the successor of Nissen as permanent under-secretary, the highest position in the Ministry. However, this time Trygve Bratteli chose economist Eivind Erichsen
Eivind Erichsen (28 January 1917 – 21 January 2005) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant.
Life and career
He was born in Kristiania as a son of postmaster Erik Emanuel Erichsen (1884–1963) and Petra Antoine Olsen (1885–1930). In Ma ...
; Grøstad and Lorentzen were both jurists. Einar Lie has called this "likely ../nowiki> the only defeat in Lorentzen's own career". Soon, Lorentzen developed a reserved relation to Erichsen as well as Per Kleppe
Per Andreas Hildhe Kleppe (13 April 1923 – 10 March 2021) was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party.
He was the Minister of Trade and Shipping in 1971–1972 during the first cabinet Bratteli, and later the Minister ...
—principally, though, since the latter two were economists and Lorentzen was a jurist. Einar Lie wrote that when Trygve Bratteli brought Lorentzen to the Ministry of Transport, he "solved" a problem. It also paved the way for up-and-coming economist Hermod Skånland
Hermod Skånland (15 June 1925 – 16 April 2011) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant, who served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Norway from 1985 to 1993.
Biography
Skånland was born in Tromsø as a son of school director Peder ...
.[Lie, 1995: p. 350]
Lorentzen was also the chairman of the Norwegian Association of Lawyers
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from 1966 to 1971 and the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund
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References
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1916 births
1979 deaths
Norwegian civil servants
Supreme Court of Norway justices
People from Sunndal