Nikolai Nissen Paus

Nikolai Nissen Paus
President of the Norwegian Red Cross
In office 1945–1947
Preceded by	Fridtjof Heyerdahl
Succeeded by	Erling Steen
Personal details
Born	4 June 1877 Christiania
Died	23 December 1956 Tønsberg

Nikolai Nissen Paus (born 4 June 1877 in Christiania, died 23 December 1956 in Tønsberg) was a Norwegian surgeon, hospital director and humanitarian. He served as President of the Norwegian Red Cross 1945–1947, and as Vice President 1930–1945 and acting President 1939–1940. He was also President of the Norwegian Florence Nightingale Committee and chaired several governmental committees.

After graduating from Aars and Voss School, Paus entered the Royal Frederick University, where he graduated as a medical doctor in 1903. He also became a second lieutenant in 1896 and a first lieutenant in 1905. He was conferred the dr.med. (D.Sc.) degree in 1916, with a dissertation on tuberculosis. Between 1903 and 1918, he worked at a number of hospitals and visited several foreign hospitals. He was a deputy consultant in surgery at the National Hospital 1912–1917. In 1916 he was appointed senior consultant and managing director of the Jarlsberg and Larvik Hospital (renamed Vestfold Hospital in 1918), but did not assume his position before 1918. He served as director of Vestfold Hospital until 1947, building and decisively shaping the institution. He organised and participated in humanitarian work in Finland during the Winter War. He served two terms on the executive board of the Norwegian Medical Association. He was described by Aftenposten as "one of the country's preeminent physicians" on his death.

A member of the Paus family, Nikolai Nissen Paus was a son of the theologian Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss and Anna Henriette Wegner. He was a grandson of the industrialist Benjamin Wegner and his grandmother was a member of the Berenberg banking family of Hamburg. His paternal grandfather Nicolai Nissen Pauss was a ship-owner in Drammen, and he was ultimately named for his 6th great grandfather, Danish estate owner and high court judge Nikolaj Nissen. He was a brother of the barrister and Director at the Norwegian Employers' Confederation George Wegner Paus and of the hydropower executive Augustin Paus.

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