About Fredrik Schreiner
Lived 1905 – 1988 (aged 83). Fredrik Schreiner was a Norwegian writer and jurist.
Fredrik Elster Schreiner (27 January 1905 – 11 May 1988) was a Norwegian civil servant.
He was born in Drøbak, and moved to Kristiania at the age of ten. He studied law, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1928. In his youth he was a member of the revolutionary group Mot Dag.
He was hired as a secretary in the National Insurance Administration in 1934. He worked there for one year, and then worked in the Ministry of Justice and for the chief administrative officer of finances in Aker municipality. In 1948 he was hired as the chief administrative officer of communications in Oslo,
He was also involved in a Norwegian development aid project in Kerala, a state in India. This was the first such overseas project that Norway had undertaken.
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Who was Fredrik Schreiner?
Norwegian writer
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Fredrik Schreiner was born on 27 January 1905 in Drøbak.
When did Fredrik Schreiner die?
Fredrik Schreiner died on 11 May 1988.
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Fredrik Schreiner was a writer and jurist.
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Fredrik Schreiner was Norwegian.
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