Aage Thor Falkanger, Sr.

Male, Deceased Person

1902 – 1981

95

Who was Aage Thor Falkanger, Sr.?

Aage Thor Falkanger was a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of wholesaler Thor Falkanger and Aagot Kamstrup. In 1933 he married curate's daughter Haldis Brun. Their son Thor Falkanger became a law professor, and Aage Thor Falkanger became a Supreme Court Justice at the age of 45.

Aage Thor Falkanger finished his secondary education in 1921, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1925. He was a deputy judge in Solør District Court from 1927 to 1931, secretary in the National Insurance Administration from 1931 to 1934 and police superindendent in the police districts Hordaland, Flekkefjord and Bergen. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, in 1941, he was fired from his job by the occupying Nazi authorities. He fled to the United Kingdom where he was an assistant secretary for the Ministry of Justice and the Police-in-exile until 1945.

From 1945 to 1946 he was a state attorney during the legal purge in Norway after World War II. He was appointed as a judge in Hålogaland Court of Appeal in 1946, district stipendiary magistrate in Fosen District Court in 1947 and in Stjør- and Verdal District Court in 1952. He died in January 1981 and was buried in Alstadhaug, Levanger.

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Born
Dec 9, 1902
Died
Jan 4, 1981

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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