Carl Bødtker

Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker (19 May 1886 – 5 February 1980) was a Norwegian engineer and radio personality.

Early and personal life He was born at Oscarsborg Fortress as a son of Major General Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker (1851–1928) and Karen Agathe Falck (1852–1932). He was the brother of banker and art collector Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, a nephew of log driving manager Ragnvald Bødtker and County Governor Eivind Bødtker and a second cousin of theatre critic Sigurd Bødtker and chemist Eyvind Bødtker.

Bødtker first followed in his father's footsteps, taking education as a machine engineer at Kristiania Technical School in 1906. In 1906 he was hired as controller at a cannon factory in Düsseldorf; from 1911 he worked at a steel works in the same city. He met his future wife, Anita Emily Möhlau (1889–1979) here and married her in 1914. In the same year he returned to Norway, and was hired at Norsk Hydro Rjukan. He lost his job at Norsk Hydro due to downsizing around 1925, and then became a board member of Kringkastingselskapet from 1925 to 1930. In 1933 the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation was established. At the same time he left the party. However, he was asked to return in October 1942, Bødtker remained in his position until Victory in Europe Day, when the Nazi regime fell; he was arrested shortly thereafter. Nonetheless Bødtker maintained a low profile for the rest of his life and died in February 1980 in Ådal.