Background
KOREN, Petter was born on January 22, 1910 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of Dean Laurentius Stub Koren and Thordis Andrea Morch Koren.
non-fiction writer judge politician
KOREN, Petter was born on January 22, 1910 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of Dean Laurentius Stub Koren and Thordis Andrea Morch Koren.
University of Oslo.
He was temporary County Governor of Akershus from 1966 to 1970, and County Governor from 1970 to 1979. From August to September 1963 he served as the Minister of Justice and the Police during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng. In 1972 he was again appointed to this post in the cabinet Korvald, which lasted until 1973.
A jurist by profession, he graduated with the candidate.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 1932.
He worked as a civil servant in various government ministries, held numerous posts in public boards and committees, and worked as a judge.
He was a deputy member of Hedrum municipality council in the period 1937–1938 and held various positions in Oslo city council between 1947 and 1965.
Married Aase Dahl in 1938.