Sverre Sverressøn Klingenberg (7 November 1882 – 1958) was the Norwegian engineer and politician for the Conservative Party.

Personal life

He was born in

Trondhjem Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is t ...

as a son of attorney Sverre Olafssøn Klingenberg (1844–1913) and Hilda Johannesdatter Klingenberg (1843–1912). He was a brother of Odd, Olav and Kaare Sverressøn Klingenberg and a grandson and grandnephew of engineer Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg. In 1906 he married Ingeborg Halvorsdatter Kulseth (daughter of a tailor) in

Selbu Municipality Selbu is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mebonden. Other villages in Selbu include Flora, Trøndelag, Flora, Fossan ...

Career

He attended

Trondhjem Technical School Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is t ...

from 1900 to 1902. After spending the following two years in America, he settled in

Strinda Municipality Strinda is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality encompassed the eastern part of what is now Trondheim Municipality south and east of ...

in 1905. He was mainly an engineer and technical consultant, but also a farmer. From 1910 to 1914 he took further education, in

construction engineering Construction engineering, also known as construction operations, is a professional subdiscipline of civil engineering that deals with the designing, planning, construction, and operations management of infrastructure such as roadways, tunnels, bri ...

, at the new

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...

. He was then an assistant at the municipal engineer's office, and from 1918 he ran the factory Strindens Torvstrøfabrik. He continued as an engineering consultant by leading the construction of Strinda Hospital (1923–1924), the Trøndelag Art Exhibition (1929–1930),

Trøndelag Travbane Leangen Travbane is a harness racing course located at Leangen in Trondheim Municipality, Norway. The race course is owned by the Norwegian Trotting Association and its parimutuel betting is handled by Norsk Rikstoto. Through this arrangement it ...

(1931) and Reitgjerdet Asylum (1932). He was an elected member of the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

from 1916 to 1922, serving as deputy mayor for the last three years. He was also a member of the school board for nine years. From 1924 to 1936 he was a member of the Conservative Party central board, and from 1927 to 1936 he chaired Sør-Trøndelag Conservative Party. In the

1930 Norwegian parliamentary election Year 193 (Roman numerals, CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination ...

he was elected as a deputy representative to the

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from

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...

, serving the term 1931–1933. He was re-elected in

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to serve another term as a deputy. He held a variety of board membership in the dairy industry in his homedistrict. He chaired Trondhjems Meieri (1923–1934), Trøndelag Melkesentral (from 1930) and Bøndernes Salgslag—and was a board member of the local savings bank (1925–1929), Meieribrukets Innkjøp and Norges Melkeprodusenters Landsforbund (from 1930). He died in 1958.Genealogical entry
for Sverre Sverressøn Klingenberg

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klingenberg, Sverre Sverresson 1882 births 1958 deaths Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni 20th-century Norwegian engineers 20th-century Norwegian farmers Politicians from Trondheim Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting

Sverre Sverre, Sverrir or Sverri is a Nordic name from the Old Norse ''Sverrir'', meaning "wild, swinging, spinning". It is a common name in Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands; it is less common in Denmark and Sweden. It can also be a surname. Sverre ma ...