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About Anker Folkestad
- Anker Lyder Folkestad (31 July 1914 – 28 August 1989) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Ullern as a son of station manager Ole Folkestad (1875–1951) and Marianne Evensen (1878–1950), and younger brother of engineer Olav Georg Folkestad.
- In 1942 he married Ragnhild Charlotte Ajaxson.
- They resided in Bærum.He finished secondary school in 1933 and also took Treider School in 1937.
- He was subsequently hired as a secretary at Treider School before studying law.
- He graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1945.He worked as a secretary and consultant in the Ministry of Finance from 1946, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1956.
- After a tenure as director of personnel in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1961 to 1963, he was appointed as deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Defence.Folkestad was also a member of several public planning commissions.
- He died in August 1989 and was buried at Haslum.
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