Background
He was a son of ship-owner and merchant Ismar Mathias Pauss (1835–1907) of Drammen, Norway, a member of the Paus family.
He was a son of ship-owner and merchant Ismar Mathias Pauss (1835–1907) of Drammen, Norway, a member of the Paus family.
He studied in Germany and England and joined his father"s shipping company.
He served as the consul-general of Sweden and Norway in New South Wales and Queensland from 1902 to 1905 and as the Norwegian consul from 1905 to 1928. He also acted as Danish consul for two separate periods and as Swiss consul. In 1885 he emigrated to Australia and established his own business as a ship-owner and shipbroker in Sydney focusing on the Scandinavian shipping industry.
He became the representative of most Norwegian shipping interests in Sydney and director of several companies, such as Wilh.
Wilhelmsen"s Australian subsidiary. He was also the representative of the Nordic Ship-Owners" Association and of Det Norske Veritas.
He founded the Norwegian Club in Sydney in 1906. He was also president of several sports societies in Sydney, involved in masonic societies and noted for philanthropic work in Sydney, for example as a supporter of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.
He was a brother of Alf and Nicolay Nissen Paus, who founded the industrial company Paus & Paus, a nephew of the theologian Bernhard Pauss and a first cousin of Nikolai Nissen Paus, George Wegner Paus and Augustin Paus.