Trygve Hirsch

Who is Trygve Hirsch?

Trygve Patroclus Einarsønn von Hirsch was a Norwegian barrister and writer.

He was born in Lørenskog as a son of landowner and dentist Einar von Hirsch and Elise Jacobine Kjoss-Hansen. In 1942 he married Swedish citizen Margit Kristina Wikland.

He finished his secondary education in 1931 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the Royal Frederick University in 1935. He was a junior solicitor for one year before opening his own law firm in Volda in 1936. He was then deputy judge in Nordre Sunnmøre District Court in 1938 and for the stipendiary magistrate in Ålesund in 1939. He was a secretary in Riksskattestyret from 1939 to 1946, when he again opened his own law firm, this time in Oslo. From 1956 he was a barrister with access to work with Supreme Court cases.

He chaired the supervisory council of Ivarans Rederi from 1950, and became a board member in 1966. He also chaired Høka from 1967 and was a board member of IBM Norway, Autoindustri, Grønvold Industri, Eckbos Legater, Titan Co and Titania, Forsikringsselskapet Pallas and the Norwegian Jockey Club.

He is best known to the general public for his criminal short stories and novels, written under the pseudonym 'Stein Staale. Novels include Cocktailmysteriet, Dødstonene, Åndemasken and Døden går på bedehus, with Anton Beinset. With the book Detektivgjengen på sporet he also ventured into young adult fiction. He is also known for the non-fiction book Norsk presse under hakekorset, issued in 1946 together with G. Jensson.