Hans Wangensten Paus, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hans Wangensten Paus

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1891

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Hans Wangensten Paus

  • Hans Wangensten Paus (born 26 July 1891 in Trondhjem, died 1975), often known as H.W.
  • Paus, was a Norwegian road engineer and Director of the roads department at the Directorate of Public Roads.
  • He is also known for authoring several works on the history of road engineering in Norway. He studied engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology 1914–1919 and graduated as a civil engineer.
  • He also became a commissioned officer in the Norwegian Army in 1916.
  • He worked at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration for his entire career.
  • He was an engineer in Nordland and Oppland before he was employed at the Directorate of Public Roads in 1937.
  • In 1949, he became director of its most important department, the roads departments, and served in this position until he retired in 1961. He was a son of the noted railway engineer captain Tollef Lintrup Paus (1843–1915), and a member of the Paus family. H.W.
  • Paus was also noted as an historian of road engineering in Norway, and was also interested in heraldry and genealogy.

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