Annæus Schjødt (13 February 1920 – 4 November 2014) was a Norwegian barrister.

Personal life

He was born in Aker as a son of

Annæus Schjødt Annæus Schjødt (7 March 1888 – 12 October 1972) was a Norwegian lawyer. He is best known as the prosecutor of Vidkun Quisling. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as a son of Attorney General Annæus Johannes Schjødt (1857–1923) ...

(1888–1972) and Hedevig Schjødt, née Petersen (1892–1966). He was a grandson of Attorney General Annæus J. Schjødt. His sister Karen Hedevig Schjødt married chief physician

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. From 1947 to 1965 he was married to Sissel Anker Olsen (1927–1987), a daughter of Kristofer Anker Olsen and sister of

Sossen Krohg Sossen Krohg (born Sossen Anker Olsen; 18 December 1923 – 12 February 2016) was a Norwegian playwright and stage and film actress. Personal life She was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of newspaper editor Kristoffer ...

. From 1968 to 1976 he was married to Grethe Buck, a daughter of Bertel Otto Steen and Bodil Braathen. After their divorce in 1976, he married

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agent Sylvia Rafael (1937–2005) whom he had defended in 1974 for her participation in the

Lillehammer affair The Lillehammer affair (, ''Parshat Lillehammer'', Norwegian: ''Lillehammer-saken'') was the murder of Ahmed Bouchikhi, a Moroccan waiter and the brother of the French musician Chico Bouchikhi, by Mossad agents in Lillehammer, Norway, on 21 ...

. He died aged 94 on 4 November 2014.

Career

He took the

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at Riis in 1938 and the

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degree in 1947. In between he served four years in the air force during the

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, in the UK and Canada. He served for two years in No. 331 Squadron RAF. He was decorated with the War Medal, the

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and the

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. He worked as a deputy judge in 1948. He became a junior solicitor in his father's law firm in 1949 and became partner in 1951. From 1953 he was a barrister with access to work with

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cases. He is especially known for working with the Lillehammer case in 1974, where he defended his future wife Sylvia Rafael. He is also known from several libel cases. He was also chairman of ''

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'',

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and Braathens SAFE, and a board member of the

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, Wittusen & Jensen, Elektrokontakt,

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gruppen, Bertel O. Steen, Ingeniør F. Selmer, Tostrupgaarden,

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, A. Johnson & Co.,

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, Forsikringsselskapet Minerva and Forsikringsselskapet Viking. He retired in 1992, and moved to

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with his wife. She died in 2005, and Schjødt moved back to Norway in 2006.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schjodt, Annaeus 1920 births 2014 deaths Lawyers from Oslo Norwegian Army Air Service personnel of World War II Royal Norwegian Air Force personnel of World War II Norwegian World War II pilots Norwegian Royal Air Force pilots of World War II Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Norwegian expatriates in Canada Norwegian expatriates in South Africa