Carl Platou

Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou (25 July 1885 – 1 February 1956) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician. A jurist by education, he is best known for his civil servant career in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police, which spanned from 1911 to 1941. He was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1926, but was dismissed and later incarcerated for listening to hostile radio in 1941, during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He returned after the war as Chief Minister of the Ministry of Justice and the Police in May 1945 and County Governor of Akershus and Oslo from 1945 to 1955. He had been involved in politics before the war as well, as deputy mayor of Aker.

He was born in Bergen as the son of jurist Carl Ludvig Stoud Platou (1841–1898) and his wife Mette Marie Grüner Christiansen (1846–1927). He was a grandson of Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou, Sr, nephew of Valborg Platou and Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou, grandnephew of Fredrik Christian Stoud Platou and great-grandson of Ludvig Stoud Platou. Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was his first cousin once removed.

In January 1911 he married Astri Nilssen (1887–1963). His daughter Ellen married mathematician Erik Magnus Alfsen.

Platou grew up in Kristiania, finished his secondary education in 1902 and enrolled in law studies at the University of Oslo. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1908, and worked as a law clerk in Elverum for two years. He then worked one year as a lawyer's clerk in Kristiania before being hired as a secretary in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. In 1915 he was promoted to subdirector. In 1925 he spent one year in auditing before being promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice.

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