Hans Fasmer

Hans Berent Forman Fasmer (29 July 1875 – 16 October 1961) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Liberal Party.

Personal life He was born in Bergen to a factory owner Jan Hendrik Fasmer (1842–1912) and Magdalene Christine Tornøe (1853–1909). His uncle Hendrik Jansen Fasmer was also a factory owner, in a family of merchants who had migrated from Bremen in the 1500s and owned the Alvøen estate since the mid-1700s. He was also a brother-in-law of Thorolf Beyer Mowinckel.

Career He finished middle school at Hambro School in 1889. He travelled to Germany to work in paper factories in Düsseldorf and Schwarzwald, and later graduated in machine engineering from Technikum Mittweida in 1896. Later, he worked in the United States and subsequently in the family-owned paper factories Alvøen Papirfabrik and Sævareid Karton- & Papfabrik, from 1901 as manager. accused of harboring a fugitive. He was released, but throughout the war "incessantly" called in and questioned by Gestapo. Fasmer was a board member of Andresens og Bergens Kreditbank, and from 1923 to 1925 he chaired Kgl. Norsk Motorbåtforening. He died in October 1961 in Bergen.