Otto Sverdrup Engelschiøn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Otto Sverdrup Engelschiøn

Norwegian marketer, businessperson, resistance member and genealogist

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1902

Place of Birth: Christiania, Norway

Date of Death: 08-May-1982

Profession: lawyer, businessperson, genealogist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Otto Sverdrup Engelschiøn

  • Otto Sverdrup Engelschiøn (30 October 1902 – 8 May 1982) was a Norwegian marketer, businessperson, resistance member and genealogist. He was born in Kristiania as a son of consul-general Søren Dass Brodtkorb Sverdrup Engelschiøn (1867–1909) and Janka Hansen (1869–1935).
  • In 1928 he married Gudrun Irgens Garmann.Engelschiøn finished his secondary education in 1922 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur.
  • degree in 1926.
  • He was an attorney from 1927, and also director of I.
  • Sverdrup Engelschiøn which had the rights to distribute Swedish Tomten products in Norway.
  • In 1929 it was merged with Norsk Barnengens Tekniske Fabrik.
  • Engelschiøn spent the rest of his career in the company, from 1929 as director of the sales and marketing department and from 1948 to 1968 as co-owner.In the 1930s he was a member of Nasjonal Samling.
  • He left the party in the 1937 party split, continuing though in the Ragnarok group around national socialist Hans S.
  • Jacobsen, and edited the magazine Ragnarok in 1940.
  • In 1940, however, Norway was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany.
  • Engelschiøn joined the resistance movement and was the head of intelligence in Milorg's District 13, Division 3 (Asker and Bærum) from 1943 to 1945.
  • He received the Defence Medal 1940–1945 with rosette.Engelschiøn chaired the Norwegian Genealogical Society from 1957 to 1968, and thereafter served as deputy chairman.
  • He was also a bibliophile, chairing Bibliofilklubben twice as well as the contest jury for the Most Beautiful Book of the Year.
  • Engelschiøn also issued a crime novel under a pseudonym.He resided in Bærum.
  • He died in 1982 and was buried at Haslum.

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