Frederik Motzfeldt

Who was Frederik Motzfeldt?

Frederik Motzfeldt was a Norwegian politician.

Born in Skaun, he graduated as cand.jur. in 1801. He was a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, representing Molde where he worked as both stipendiary magistrate and district stipendiary magistrate.

He left Molde later in 1814 to work as a Supreme Court assessor. In 1821 he was appointed Auditor General of Norway, a post he held until 1827. He continued to work at the Office of the Auditor General of Norway to 1845. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1830, representing the constituency of Christiania. He had been a deputy representative in 1827.