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Karl Thommessen, Norway

Updated Mar 25, 2024
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Karl Thommessen, Norway
A photo of Karl Fredrik Albert Thommessen and Aunt Thora Iverson at Bygdøy, Oslo in 1903
Date & Place: at Bygdøy in Oslo, Oslo Norway
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Thora Iverson
Thora (Thommessen) Iverson was born on March 20, 1880 in Oslo, Oslo Norway, and died in USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thora Iverson.
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Karl Fredrik Albert Thommessen
Karl Thommessen was born in 1898 in Oslo, Norway. At the beginning of the 1920s, he worked in a bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Later Karl Thommessen founded an import company together with Rolf Lauritsen in Oslo, Norway, the firm was named Lauritsen & Thommessen. In 1928 he married Randi Ilseng from Porsgrunn, Norway. Together they got two children, Ivar and Kari. The summer of 1945, he traveled first to London and then to New York, to work for the Norwegian Ministry of Supply and Reconstruction to buy car and car parts in order to get the transportation up and running after the war. He returned to Oslo in April 1946, and lived there until his death in 1992.
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