Johan Søhr

Johan Olaus Søhr MVO (né Sørensen; 6 September 1867 – 1 January 1949) was a Norwegian jurist and police officer. Commonly known as Joh. Søhr.

Personal life Søhr was born in Oterøy, Sannidal, as the son of farmer and ship owner Johan Christian Sørensen and Ellen Kathrine Sørensen. He was married to Margit Mosgaard. In 1914 he changed his name from Sørensen to Søhr. He died in Bærum in 1949.

Career Søhr finished his secondary education in Kristiania in 1885. He studied at the Norwegian Military Academy, and then Law at the University of Kristiania, graduating as cand.jur. in 1890. His first assignments were in Søndre Bergenhus and in Østerdalen. He started working for the Kristiania Police in 1896, and as police inspector from 1906 to 1913. During World War I he was responsible for the investigation of several espionage cases. and the Rautenfels case, when 188 kg of explosives were confiscated at the railway station Oslo Ø.