Erling Sandene
{{Short description|Norwegian judge and civil servant}}
{{distinguish|Erling Sande}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Erling Sandene
|office = Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway
|term_start = 1984
|term_end = 1991
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|primeminister =
|predecessor = Rolv Ryssdal
|successor = Carsten Smith
|birth_date = {{birth date|1921|4|7}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|03|5|1921|04|07|df=y}}
| death_place =
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|spouse = Erna Harbitz Torstenson
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Erling Sandene (7 April 1921 – 5 March 2015) was a Norwegian judge and civil servant.
Early and family life
He was born in Bærum, a son of Jensine Sæther (1887–1981) and her schoolteacher husband Johan Sandene (1885–1945). Sandene married Erna Harbitz Torstenson in 1949 and they remained married until her death in 1986.{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Erling Sandene|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Liv|last=Gjølstad|authorlink=Liv Gjølstad|volume=|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Erling_Sandene/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=1 July 2009}}
He enrolled as a student in 1940, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1943 after only three years. He was also involved in the Norwegian resistance movement.
Career
In 1945 Sandene began his legal career as a deputy judge in Eidsvoll, where he helped handle the postwar legal purge. In 1946 Sandene began working in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. He was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1962.{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=Erling Sandene|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Erling_Sandene|language=Norwegian|accessdate=1 July 2009}}
Sandene became County Governor of Møre og Romsdal from 1966 to 1972. He then served as Supreme Court Justice beginning in 1972 as well as Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman from 1974 to 1982. From 1984 to 1991, Sandene was the 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Death and honors
Sandene died on March 5, 2015.{{cite news|url=http://www.budstikka.no/Kjent_jurist_d_d-5-55-44567.html|work=Budstikka|language=Norwegian|accessdate=10 March 2015|title=Kjent jurist død|author=Helland, Marit|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150310021419/http://www.budstikka.no/Kjent_jurist_d_d-5-55-44567.html|archive-date=10 March 2015|url-status=dead}} During his lifetime (1982), Sandene was appointed a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav in 1982,{{cite book|last=Torgersen|first=Rolf Normann|author-link=Rolf Normann Torgersen|title=Ordener|year=1987|publisher=Nye Atheneum|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-7334-148-8|page=189}} and was also a freemason.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article231692.ece |title=De mest kjente frimurerne |date=18 November 2001 |work=Aftenposten |language=Norwegian |accessdate=1 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114070230/http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article231692.ece |archivedate=14 November 2009 }}
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{{succession box | before=Erling Anger| title=County Governor of Møre og Romsdal | years=1966–1972 | after=Kåre Ellingsgård}}
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{{succession box |before=Rolv Ryssdal |title=Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway |years=1984–1991 |after=Carsten Smith }}
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Category:Parliamentary ombudspersons in Norway
Category:County governors of Norway
Category:Directors of government agencies of Norway
Category:Chief justices of Norway
Category:Norwegian resistance members
Category:Personnel of the legal purge in Norway
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