Kristian Welhaven


Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo foryears, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian intelligence service before World War II, and in reestablishing it after the war. During the war years Welhaven was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in both Norway and Germany, before spending the remainder of the war as a civilian internee in Bavaria.

Welhaven was born in Kristiania as the son of parish priest Johan Andreas Welhaven and his wife Gerda Kathinka Elisabeth Hansen . He married Margit Aagaard onOctober 1917 in Kristiania. He was a nephew of poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven, writer Elisabeth Welhaven and culture personality Maren Sars . In addition to these three he was a first cousin of Hjalmar Welhaven. He died in Oslo in 1975.

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