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Rolf Olaf Berg

Norwegian civil servant and diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ28842113 ↗
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Rolf Olaf Berg (born 16 July 1939) is a Norwegian civil servant and diplomat.

He was born in Stavanger and holds the cand.philol. degree. He was hired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He served as Norway's consul-general in Cape Town, South Africa from 1990 to 1992, Norway's ambassador to Mexico from 1992 to 1996, then a special adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before serving a last term as Norway's ambassador to Guatemala from 2000 to 2005.

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“Rolf Olaf Berg” enters the record as norwegian civil servant and diplomat. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rolf, Olaf and Berg can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1971, 1990, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-07-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rolf, Olaf and Berg.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28842113. VIAF identifies the subject as 6925149198268074940001. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1971, 1990 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rolf Olaf Berg” 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.