Background
Collett Solberg was born on the farm Kobbervik in Skouger as the son of businessman and politician Svend Adolph Solberg and his wife Christiane Louise Arbo.
politician member of the Parliament of Norway
Collett Solberg was born on the farm Kobbervik in Skouger as the son of businessman and politician Svend Adolph Solberg and his wife Christiane Louise Arbo.
He finished his secondary school in Drammen in 1884, and took the candidate.jur.
He served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament, and played an important role in the companies And. H. Kiær & Company and Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri. Degree in 1888.
Solberg was hired in the family company And.
H. Kiær & Company in 1890.
Solberg was also among the builders of the company Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB), and served as chair of that company until his death. Solberg was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1898, representing the constituency of Fredrikstad, and was re-elected in 1900 and 1904.
He built the company into a large corporation together with three members of the Kiær family. Elias, Hans and Frits Kiær. He was a member of Fredrikstad City Council from 1905 to 1907, and was also a member of Kristiania City Council, albeit for an unknown amount of time.