Ivar Ilseng Thommessen

Ivar was born on November 23, 1929 at Bærum sykehus, outside of Oslo, Norway. He was born to Karl Fredrik Albert Thommessen and Randi Thommessen, and had 1 sibling: Kari Dirdal. In 1949-50 he worked in Chicago for Stewart Warner Corp, before he started his studies in Civil Engineering at the university in Brighton, UK He then lived and worked one year in London, before heading home to Oslo, were he worked for Lauritsen & Thommessen, a company founded by his father. When his father Karl retired, Ivar took over the running of the firm. He married Oliv in 1968, and together they had three children, Harald, Arne and Randi. Ivar died on March 1, 2002 at Silurveien sykehjem, Oslo Norway at the ago of 72. The cause of death was Alzheimers, like his mother.

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.