Personal life

He was born in Trondhjem

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

 as a son of barrister Arthur Knagenhjelm

Arthur Knagenhjelm

-Personal life:He was born in Trondhjem as the son of Ludvig Wiese Knagenhjelm and Selma Angelique Lousie Roll. The Knagenhjelm family had resided in Sogndal in recent times, and had been ennobled in 1721, then under the name Knagenhielm. He was a brother of Lord Chamberlain Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm...

 (1866–1938) and Barbara Ihlen (1870–1953). On the maternal side he was a grandson of Jacob Thurmann Ihlen

Jacob Thurmann Ihlen

Jacob Thurmann Ihlen was a Norwegian barrister and politician for the Conservative Party.-Personal life:He was born in Holmestrand as the son of ship-owner Nils Ihlen and Barbara Wincentz Thurmann...

 and Belgian citizen Ambrosine Pauline Rouquet.

On the paternal side he was a nephew of Lord Chamberlain Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm

Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm

Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm was a Norwegian royal servant. He served as the Lord Chamberlain of Norway from 1925 to 1931.-Personal life:He was born in Trondhjem as the son of Ludvig Wiese Knagenhjelm and Selma Angelique Lousie Roll....

. The Knagenhjelm family had resided in Sogndal

Sogndal

Sogndal is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Sogndalsfjøra is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other main villages include Kaupanger, Kjørnes, and Fjærland...

 in recent times, and had been ennobled in 1721, then under the name Knagenhielm. Through his grandmother Selma Angelique Lousie Roll he was a great-grandson of mayor Jacob Roll

Jacob Roll (born 1783)

Jacob Roll was a Norwegian judge and politician.He was born in Spydeberg. He was the Chief Justice of Trondhjem Diocesal Court from 1828 to 1855. He was also the first Mayor of Trondhjem. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1833, 1836 and 1842, representing his city...

 and grandnephew of Oluf Nicolai Roll

Oluf Nicolai Roll

Oluf Nicolai Roll was a Norwegian engineer, architect and politician. He was responsible for the industrial development of the area around the river Akerselva in Christiania, and served as Director General of Statens Havnevesen from 1861 to 1896.-Personal life:Roll was born in Trondhjem, the son...

, Karl Jacob Roll and Ferdinand Nicolai Roll

Ferdinand Nicolai Roll

Ferdinand Nicolai Roll was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Trondhjem as the son of judge and politician Jacob Roll and his third wife Nicoline Selmer. He had three siblings. Like his father, he took a law education, enrolling as a student in 1847 and...

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In June 1946 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 he married Ragnhild Sverdrup Fearnley, born 1916. She was a daughter of Ragnhild Sverdrup, who was a second cousin of Otto Sverdrup

Otto Sverdrup

Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer.-Early and personal life:...

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Career

He finished his secondary education in 1916, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1922. He was a deputy judge from 1922 to 1924, then a junior solicitor from 1925 to 1928. He was hired in the Ministry of Finance in 1930, and advanced to assistant secretary in 1934. In 1940 he was hired in the Ministry of Provisioning. He became deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Local Government in 1945, and served as the highest-ranking civil servant in the ministry, permanent under-secretary of state, from 1966 to 1968.

He chaired Salomons Skofabrik and was a supervisory council member of Hafslund and Andresens Bank. He died in May 1987 and was buried in Vestre gravlund

Vestre gravlund

Vestre gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway, located next to the Borgen metro station. At , it is the largest cemetery in Norway...

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