Alf R. Bjercke

Alf Richard Bjercke (30 May 1921 – 9 December 2011 ) was a Norwegian business magnate, consul and sports official.

Early life He was born in Oslo as a grandson of Alf Bjercke. Alf Bjercke (1851–1933) was a notable businessman, especially within paint and lacquer, and politician. Both are descendants of politician Lars Thorstensen Tønsager.

Alf R. Bjercke attended primary school at Majorstuen, in a class together with Øistein Parmann, Birger Mathisen and Rolf Kirkvaag. He later took what he himself has described as a "lousy" examen artium. He studied chemical technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1941. However, his studies were interrupted because of World War II. He served with the Royal Norwegian Air Force-in-exile, in Canada and the United Kingdom, from 1941 to 1945. as Senior Intelligence Officer in NATO's Northern HQ. He was initiated in 1989 at his chapter's centennial celebration. From 1963 to 1993 he was the consul-general for Tunisia in Norway. His interest in the topic spawned when he discovered that a distant ancestor from the Eidsvoll area had been such a dragoon. before the university finally rejected to take it up for doctoral assessment. as well as many other books.

Organizations Bjercke was among the founders of the Anders Lange Party, later known as the Progress Party. He later resigned his membership because he disagreed on a number of issues. From 1974 to 1976 he was a board member of the Oslo Conservative Party. He also served one term in Oslo city council. Some time around Siv Jensen's takeover as party leader he rejoined the Progress Party.

Bjercke was also a founder of the Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers, and has been a board member. He has also held board/council memberships in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the World Wildlife Fund, Norway and the Norway-America Association, and has been involved in Rotary International. He has been an initiator for restoration of the world's oldest steamship Skibladner for traffic, and has vice-chaired the board that is responsible for the ship Christian Radich. Representing the sports club IF Ready, he was deputy chairman of the Norwegian Athletics Association in 1968, before being elected to chairman at the 1968 congress, serving from 1969 to 1972. He was a member of the Norwegian Olympic Committee during the leadership period. He led the athletic team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

Bjercke has been decorated with the Order of St. Olav, and has also been decorated by the Tunisian state as a Commander, by the Emperor Haile Selassie I with an Off. of the Star of Ethiopia and by Rotary International with the Paul Harris Medal with 5 sapphires.