Sverre Rynning-Tønnesen (24 April 1894 – 1970) was a Norwegian

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and civil servant. He graduated from the

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 ...

in 1922, and began working in

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in the same year. From 1945 to 1962 he served as director of Telegrafverket, which would change its name to Televerket in 1969 and

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in 1995. He had been named director already in 1942, but he was exiled in London until 1945 due to the

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. He was an uncle of police leader Carl M. Rynning-Tønnesen.

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1894 births 1970 deaths Norwegian electrical engineers Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni Norwegian people of World War II Norwegian expatriates in England {{Norway-gov-bio-stub