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Andreas Rygg
Norwegian military officer (1909–1999)
Andreas Kielland Rygg (22 March 1909 – 2 April 1999) was a Norwegian military officer.
He was born in Horten, a son of naval commander Andreas Andersen and Nelly Kielland.[1] He finished secondary school in 1929[2] and graduated as a naval officer in 1932. He married Sofie Gram in 1937, daughter of stipendiary magistrate Harald Gram and sister of Gregers Gram.[1]
He served on several vessels, from 1939 as second-in-command of HNoMS B-6. In May 1940 he temporarily left naval service, being hired in the Ministry of Provisioning in the summer.[2] During the German occupation of Norway he established the clandestine organization for naval intelligence RMO, which operated from Oslo from the spring of 1942.[3] Rygg chaired RMO until he had to flee to Sweden in 1943, due to the German mass arrest of Norwegian military officers.[4] From 1943 to 1945 he served at the military office of the Norwegian Legation in Stockholm.[1]
He served as naval attaché in Stockholm and Copenhagen from 1948 to 1950, and assistant naval attaché in Washington, D.C. from 1950 to 1952. He was Border Commissioner at the Norway-Soviet border from 1962 to 1969,[1] and then worked in the naval staff until 1974.[2]
He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945,[2] was a Knight, First Class of the Swedish Order of the Sword, and the Danish Order of Dannebrog.[1]
