Willy Christian Simonsen
Male, Deceased Person
1913 – 2003
Who was Willy Christian Simonsen?
Willy Christian Simonsen was a Norwegian engineer and business founder.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of chemist Einar Simonsen and Alice Sophia Andersen. He finished his secondary education at Hegdehaugen School in 1933, and graduated in electrical engineering from the Dresden University of Technology in 1938. He worked as an engineer for Elektrisk Bureau and Chr. Michelsen Institute. During the German occupation of Norway from 1940 he was involved in the Norwegian resistance movement where he cooperated with fellow engineers Odd Dahl and Helmer H. Dahl to wiretap German forces. This was discovered and Simonsen was arrested by Gestapo, but admitted to UllevÄl Hospital from which he escaped. He fled to the United Kingdom, where he started working in the Radio Production Unit of the British War Office. He developed the shortwave radio "Sweetheart".
He was hired as a technical consultant for the Norwegian High Command after the war. In 1947 he started the company Simonsen Radio in Oslo, and in 1957 the company Simonsen & Mustad followed in Horten. He received initial capital from Halfdan and John Mustad.
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- Born
- Sep 13, 1913
- Education
- Dresden University of Technology
- Died
- Dec 4, 2003
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on July 23, 2013
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