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Knut Fixdal

Norwegian civil servant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ16006561 ↗
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Knut Fixdal (16 September 1887 – 22 July 1969) was a Norwegian civil servant born in Vestnes. He worked as road engineer in Finnmark from 1920, and in Telemark from 1937. His brother Nils Fixdal was an athlete. Fixdal was incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp during the Second World War from June 1942 to May 1945, and took over as acting county manager of Telemark after the war from 8 May to 1 September 1945. He served as road manager from 1949 to 1957.

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The public source identifies “Knut Fixdal” as norwegian civil servant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Knut, Fixdal and Norwegian.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1969, 1920, 1937—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1887-09-16. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Knut, Fixdal and Norwegian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Knut Fixdal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.