Thomas Norberg Schulz, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas Norberg Schulz

Norwegian engineer

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1866

Date of Death: 28-May-1950

Profession: businessperson, engineer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Thomas Norberg Schulz

  • Thomas Norberg Schulz (12 July 1866 – 28 May 1950) was a Norwegian engineer. He was born in Trondhjem as a son of attorney Laurentius Andreas Schulz and Christiane Wilhelmine Ulich.
  • He was a brother of educator Carl Schulz.
  • In February 1897 in Strinda he married Gustava Kielland Bachke, a daughter of Anton Sophus Bachke.
  • He was a grandfather of architect Christian Norberg-Schulz, and thus great-grandfather of opera singer Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz.
  • He died in May 1950 in Oslo.He took exams at Trondhjem Technical School in 1884 and 1885, and graduated from Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule in electrical engineering in 1888.
  • In between he worked at Elektrisk Bureau from 1886 to 1887 and 1889 to 1891.
  • He was a manager of Kristiania Elektrisitetsverk from 1891, having been hired at the age of twenty-five, and was then the chief executive officer from 1908 to 1920.
  • He was the director of electricity in the Norwegian Water Resources and Electricity Agency from 1920 to 1933.He was a co-founder and first chairman, from 1901 to 1915, of Norske Elektrisitetsverkers Forening and became an honorary member there in 1926.
  • Internationally he was an honorary vice president of the International Council on Large Electric Systems from 1921.
  • He chaired the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1915 to 1918, wrote several technical-academical works and was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1928.
  • He was also a board member of Freia Chocolade Fabrik from 1904 to 1939 and Statens metalcentral.

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