Sigurd Lorentzen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian civil servant and judge
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Place of Birth: Sunndal, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
About Sigurd Lorentzen
- Sigurd Juell Lorentzen (5 August 1916 – 25 January 1979) was a Norwegian judge and civil servant. He was born in Sunndal, and was a brother of professor Gustav Fredrik Lorentzen.
- He married judge Lelia Marie Loe in 1957.
- They resided in Bærum.He enrolled as a student in 1934, graduated with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1938, and worked as a secretary in Trustkontrollkontoret from 1939 to 1940 and in the Norwegian Price Directorate from 1940 to 1945.
- After a brief time in the Ministry of Finance in 1945, to which he was summoned by Wilhelm Thagaard, he returned to the Price Directorate and remained here until 1949.
- He was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance from 1951 to 1960, permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Transport from 1960 to 1972 and a Supreme Court Justice from 1972 to 1979.When hired as deputy under-secretary in 1951, Lorentzen edged out applicants who were generally believed to be better qualified, especially Einar Grøstad.
- This was a personal decision by Minister of Finance Trygve Bratteli.
- Lorentzen was the youngest of the applicants, and the second youngest permanent under-secretary in the Ministry at the time.
- He was also known to be, as a person, quite similar to Trygve Bratteli.
- He became quite strong; historian Einar Lie has noted that "in reality", the permanent under-secretary of state Friedrich Georg Nissen did not function "as a real superior to Lorentzen".
- In 1957, both Grøstad and Lorentzen applied to become the successor of Nissen as permanent under-secretary, the highest position in the Ministry.
- However, this time Trygve Bratteli chose economist Eivind Erichsen; Grøstad and Lorentzen were both jurists.
- Einar Lie has called this "likely [...] the only defeat in Lorentzen's own career".
- Soon, Lorentzen developed a reserved relation to Erichsen as well as Per Kleppe—principally, though, since the latter two were economists and Lorentzen was a jurist.
- Einar Lie wrote that when Trygve Bratteli brought Lorentzen to the Ministry of Transport, he "solved" a problem.
- It also paved the way for up-and-coming economist Hermod SkĂĄnland.Lorentzen was also the chairman of the Norwegian Association of Lawyers from 1966 to 1971 and the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund.
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