Sverre Sverressøn Klingenberg (7 November 1882 – 1958) was the

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engineer and politician for the Conservative Party.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of attorney Sverre Olafssøn Klingenberg (1844–1913) and Hilda Johannesdatter Klingenberg (1843–1912). He was a brother of

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, 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

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Career

He attended Trondhjem Technical School from 1900 to 1902. After spending the following two years in America, he settled in Strinda 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, at the new Norwegian Institute of Technology. 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 (1931) and Reitgjerdet Asylum (1932). He was an elected member of Strinda

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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

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he was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag, serving the term 1931–1933. He was re-elected in 1933 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 Norwegian farmers Politicians from Trondheim Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Sverre