1. Arne Toralf Sunde was a Norwegian politician, Olympic shooter and army officer.
33 Facts About Arne Sunde
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Arne Sunde was born on 6 December 1883 in the Norwegian capital Kristiania.
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Arne Sunde's parents were Director General of the Norwegian State Railways, Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance Elias Sunde and his wife Benedicte Louise Tjersland.
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On 26 July 1916, Arne Sunde married Sigrid Nicoline Aubert Lie.
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Arne Sunde's wife was a daughter of writer Bernt Lie.
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Arne Sunde's wife was a second cousin of Jonas Lie, a Nazi police chief who joined the pretending government after Arne Sunde and many others fled Norway during the Second World War.
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Arne Sunde was an avid sports shooter in the Oslo-based rifle association Christiania Skytterlag.
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Arne Sunde participated in the Norwegian team in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Arne Sunde was educated in law and military studies, first graduating from Kristiania Cathedral School in 1902.
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In 1913, Arne Sunde studied political science at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
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Arne Sunde then served as a district stipendiary magistrate for Eiker, Modum and Sigdal District Court in Buskerud from 1913 to 1914.
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In 1916, Arne Sunde was appointed adjunct military attache to the Norwegian legation in Paris, and in 1919 he was an assistant in financial questions for the Norwegian legation during the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Versailles.
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Arne Sunde was among a number of prominent Norwegians to sign a declaration calling on Norway's conservative parties to approach King Haakon VII and ask him to request that Nansen form a government of national unity to replace Lykke's Cabinet.
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In 1929 Arne Sunde became deputy mayor of Aker, where he now lived.
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Arne Sunde was appointed Minister of Justice in the Liberal Party of Norway's Mowinckel's Second Cabinet in November 1930.
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Arne Sunde lost this position in May 1931, when the Agrarian Kolstad's Cabinet took over.
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From 1932 to 1933, Arne Sunde presided for Norway in the Eastern Greenland Case at the Permanent Court of International Justice.
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In March 1933, the Agrarian cabinet fell, and Arne Sunde returned to government as Minister of Justice in the Mowinckel's Third Cabinet.
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Arne Sunde was a member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
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The main fighting that Major Arne Sunde participated in during the Norwegian Campaign was the Battle of Dombas where he from 17 to 19 April 1940 led the 1st Battalion, Infantry Regiment 11 and an assortment of other units to victory against a company of German Fallschirmjager soldiers that had been dropped against the Norwegian railway and road junction of Dombas on 14 April.
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Major Arne Sunde demanded an unconditional surrender within 10 minutes or else he would resume the artillery bombardment of the surrounded German positions.
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Arne Sunde left Norway from the western port of Andalsnes on the British cruiser HMS Galatea in the late hours of 23 April 1940, bringing 200 large crates of gold bars belonging to the Norwegian National Treasury to the United Kingdom.
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Shortly after arriving in the UK Arne Sunde managed to secure a credit from Hambros Bank.
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On 7 June 1940, Arne Sunde was appointed consultative Councillor of State without portfolio, as one of two new councillors not from the Labour Party, the other being the Agrarian Party's Anders Fjeldstad.
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When that ministry was restructured on 1 November 1942 Arne Sunde continued as Minister of Shipping until he left the cabinet on 25 June 1945, after the end of the Second World War and the return to Norway of the exiled Norwegian authorities.
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Arne Sunde withdrew his demands when he realised that he did not have the support of Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold.
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At the time of the altercation Arne Sunde was one of the leading candidates to take over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but was instead given the Ministry of Provisioning after Trygve Lie left that position to become Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Arne Sunde stated that in his opinion the Cabinet had always made it a priority to attract competent individuals to its service, regardless of those individuals' political affiliations.
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From 1945 to 1948, Arne Sunde again headed the Oslo office of Bergens Privatbank.
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From 1949 to 1952, Arne Sunde was the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations.
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Arne Sunde had been the UN Security Council President in June 1949.
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When he was interviewed on his 80th birthday in 1964 Arne Sunde stated that he viewed his time on the Security Council as the absolute high point of his life.
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From 1953 to 1958, Arne Sunde chaired NATO's control commission on the expenses of jointly financed military installations.