Waldemar Stoud Platou

Waldemar Stoud Platou (11 August 1868 – 13 July 1930) was a Norwegian businessperson. He had a long career in the brewery industry.

Personal life He was born in Furnes Municipality, in Hedmark county, as the son of banker Christian Fredrik Stoud Platou (1824–1883) and Elise Sem (1833–1923). He was a brother of Gabriel Andreas Stoud Platou and Christian Emil Stoud Platou, grandnephew of Ludvig Stoud Platou, uncle of Karen, Ragnar and Frithjof Stoud Platou and granduncle of Lars T. Platou. He was also a second cousin of Oscar, Lars and Valborg Platou.

Platou married three times. In January 1891 in Kristiania he married Hilda Oppegaard (1859–1954), but the marriage was dissolved in 1908. In March 1910 in Bergen he married actor Dina Nordvik (1884–1921). After her death he married French citizen Alexandra Henriette Maud de Ciccolini in April 1926 in Nice. He advanced from manager to chief executive officer of Hansa in 1898. He was later the chief executive officer of Frydenlunds Bryggeri from 1916 to 1924, and then chairman of Frydenlunds until his death.

Platou was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1910. A bust of him was raised at Fløibanen's terminus station Vetrlidsalmenning. In 1927 he retreated to a farm he had bought in Stange Municipality, where he died in July 1930.