Egil Werner Erichsen
Norwegian corporate director and politician for the Conservative Party (1901–2000)
Egil Werner Erichsen (4 October 1901 – 3 March 2000) was a Norwegian corporate director and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Holt Municipality outside Tvedestrand in Nedenes county as a son of district physician Stian Erichsen (1867–1953) and his wife Magdalene Susanne Werner (1870–1967). His older brother was the future newspaper editor Rolv Werner Erichsen (1899–1988). During the First World War, Erichsen was hit by the Spanish flu, but did not spend one day in bed. In 1921–22, he studied economics at the University of Caen, and was thereupon employed by the American Express Company in Paris. In 1926, he graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.oecon. degree. Between 1926 and 1937, he headed the financial redaction of the Morgenbladet newspaper. He was also editor-in-chief of the journal Økonomisk Revy from 1955 to 1970. He married Giske Rasmussen in 1930.
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