Fredrik S. Heffermehl
| Fredrik Heffermehl | |
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| Honorary President of the Norwegian Peace Council | |
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Assumed office 2004 |
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| President of the Norwegian Peace Council | |
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In office 1988–2004 |
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| Vice President of the International Peace Bureau | |
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In office 1994 – ? |
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| Vice President of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms | |
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In office 1997 – ? |
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| Secretary-General of the Norwegian Humanist Association | |
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In office 1980–1982 |
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| Succeeded by | Levi Fragell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 November 1938 |
| Nationality | Norway |
| Occupation | Lawyer, civil servant and peace activist |
Fredrik Stang Heffermehl (born 11 November 1938) is a Norwegian jurist, writer and peace activist. He formerly worked as a lawyer and civil servant from 1965 to 1982 and was the first secretary-general of the Norwegian Humanist Association from 1980 to 1982. He later made his mark as a writer and activist for peace and against nuclear arms. He is the honorary president, and former president, of the Norwegian Peace Council, a former vice president of the International Peace Bureau, which received the 1910 Nobel Peace Prize, and a former vice president of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms.
Born in Rena, Heffermehl enrolled at the University of Oslo, graduating with the cand.jur. degree in 1964. He then worked as a lawyer from 1965 to 1973, while also taking a master's degree in 1970 at New York University. In 1973 Heffermehl became an assistant director at the office of the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman. He left this position in 1980 to become the first secretary-general of the Norwegian Humanist Association. He left the Humanist Association in 1982 to work as an independent writer. In addition to writing non-fiction books, Heffermehl has translated several books to Norwegian.
In 1988 he became the president of the NGO Norwegian Peace Council, and a member of the board of the International Peace Bureau. In 1994 he became vice president in the International Peace Bureau, and in 1997 he assumed the same position in the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. After stepping down as president of the Norwegian Peace Council, he was proclaimed honorary president.
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