The Nordisk Defence Club is an interest organisation operating in the Nordic countries

Nordic countries

The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...

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It was established in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 in 1889 and moved to Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 in 1893 (a Danish Defence Club was founded in 1925). Its purpose is to act as a law firm for the clients who have registered ships and oil rig

Oil rig

Oil rig may refer to* Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling* Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drillingOIL RIG or OILRIG may refer to :...

s with the club.

Chief executive since 2000 is Georg Scheel

Georg Scheel

Georg Scheel is a Norwegian barrister.He is a great-grandson of Herman Scheel. He finished his secondary education at Ullern in 1969, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1974, and gained access to work with Supreme Court cases in 1977...

, and chairman of the board is Nils P. Dyvik. Its organizational headquarters are at Elisenberg

Elisenberg

Elisenberg is a neighborhood in the Frogner borough in Oslo, Norway.It is defined as an area between the streets Elisenbergveien, Frognerveien, Bygdøy allé and Kristinelundveien. The borough grew up around the paddock manor Schafteløkken, divided from Frogner farm and bought by Andreas Schaft in...

, and it also has an office in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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