Hassa Horn

Hans Thomas "Hassa" Horn (2 October 1873 – 21 April 1968) was a Norwegian road engineer, industrialist, sports official and politician for the Conservative Party.

Personal life He was born in Christiania as a son of civil servant Hassa Horn Sr. (1837–1921) and Alette Gram (1844–1933). In 1905 he married Helga Birch-Reichenwald (1882–1909), a daughter of Peter Birch-Reichenwald. After her death he married anew, in 1910 to Sigrid Steen (1883–1956), a daughter of Johan Steen and sister of Erling Steen. Through his older sister Dorothea, Hassa Horn was an uncle of national housewives' leader Alette Nicolaysen.

Career He graduated in engineering from Kristiania Technical School in 1893, and studied at the Dresden College of Engineering from 1895 to 1897. He was then hired in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in Nordland, with transfers to the Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads in 1901 and road planning in the Faroe Islands in 1903. He was hired as chief of the Public Roads Directorate executive office in 1905, and remained so until 1918. He then had a stint as construction chief for Electric Furnace Prod. Co. in Sauda until 1921. He became chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Skiing from 1908, and remained so until 1912. In 1910 he was a participant in the splintering of Norwegian sports organizations, as the new (Confederation of Sports), which favored modern competitive sports, broke away from which favored military sports and exercise. Horn also chaired the Norwegian Ski Federation (1914–1918) and the Norwegian Lawn Tennis Federation, and from 1908 to 1918 he also served as secretary of the Norwegian Trekking Association from 1908 to 1918, and edited its yearbook.

As a politician, Horn was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway in 1912. The running mate of Nils Yngvar Ustvedt in the constituency Uranienborg, they carried 8,543 votes and won in a landslide as the closest challenger only had 1,544. In 1915 Horn was the running mate of Jens Bratlie, winning with an even larger margin; 12,960 votes against 1,888 for the closest challenger. From 1916 to 1918 Horn served one term in Kristiania city council. He was also vice president of the Norwegian Engineer Association and president from 1915 to 1919, having also co-founded the sub-group for road engineers.

Horn was a board member of Tyssefaldene, Bremanger Kraftselskap og Rujernsverk and the family company Steen & Strøm, and supervisory council member of Norsk Sprængstofindustri from 1924, Holmenkolbanen from 1925 and Bergens Privatbank from 1933.

He was decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Polar Star and received the Swedish Olympia Medal. He resided in Bærum after the war. He died in April 1968 in Oslo.