Erik Tønseth
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Erik Tønseth (7 August 1946 – 12 December 2022) was a Norwegian jurist and industrialist. Tønseth was born in
Drøbak Drøbak is a town and the centre of the municipality of Frogn, in Akershus county, Norway. The city is located along the Oslofjord, and has 13,409 inhabitants. History Drøbak and Frogn was established as a parish on its own through a royal d ...
and held the cand.jur. degree. He headed the agricultural branch of
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from 1979. He was CEO of Kværner Industrier from 1989 to 1998. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Tønseth died in
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on 12 December 2022, at the age of 76.


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1946 births 2022 deaths Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences Norwegian businesspeople People from Frogn {{norway-business-bio-stub