Richard August Riekeles, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian lawyer
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About Richard August Riekeles
- Richard August Riekeles (13 March 1904 – 18 April 1996) was a Norwegian barrister. He took the cand.jur.
- degree in 1926.
- After working as a deputy judge and junior solicitor he started his own law firm together with Finn Palmstrøm in 1930.
- He later partnered with Ludolf Næss, and from 1976 to 1991 with Øivind Fegth Knutsen and Arne Os.
- He was a barrister from 1936, with the right to work with Supreme Court cases.
- He is best known for being the prosecutor in the Oslo City Court case in 1957 where Agnar Mykle was tried for his novel Sangen om den røde rubin.
- He was also chairman of the insurance company Trygd, Norsk Forsikringsaktieselskap from 1944.
- He died in April 1996.
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