Thorvald Løchen

Thorvald Løchen (1861–1943) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician. He served as the County Governor of Nordre Trondhjems county from 1902 until 1916 and also as the County Governor of Hedmark county from 1916 until 1926.

During his time in Nordre Trondhjem county, the first part of the Nordlandsbanen railway line, then called the Hell-Sunnan line, was completed. Løchen also participated in the investigation and planning of the next section of the line heading northwards, a question which was decided at an extraordinary county council meeting in 1915, although that portion of the track was not completed until 1926–1929.

Thorvald Løchen was the son of the lawyer Edvard Martin Løchen, and he was the brother of Justice Minister Einar Løchen. In 1909, he married Ingeborg Mathia Motzfeldt, the daughter of government minister Ernst Motzfeldt.