Fredrik Vogt

Fredrik Vogt (23 December 189226 January 1970) was a Norwegian engineer and civil servant. In the 1930s he was a professor and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian abbreviation NTH). As the first director general of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Agency, he played a central role in developing the hydroelectric power capacity in Norway after the Second World War.

Personal life Vogt was born in Kristiania; a son of professor of metallurgy and geology Johan Herman Lie Vogt and Martha Johanne Abigael Kinck. He was a brother of geologist Thorolf Vogt, economist Johan Vogt and newspaper editor and politician Jørgen Vogt. In 1916 he married Signe Fjalstad, a sister of jurist and politician Olaf Fjalstad. He was a brother-in-law of actor Martin Linge and physician Odd Havrevold, who both were married to his sister Margit. He died in Oslo in January 1970. In London he worked for the Norwegian government in exile. From the summer of 1943 he chaired a governmental industrial committee. During this period the Norwegian Government completed several large hydroelectric power plants, increasing the state-owned total annual production capacity from about two to nearly eight TWh. Internationally, he chaired the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation Electricity Committee from 1954 to 1957, and was member of a World Bank committee for supervising power stations funded by the bank.

Awards and decorations Vogt became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1936. He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1947, and was Commander of the Order of the Polar Star.