Halvor Bache Guldahl was a Norwegian jurist, businessman and County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag.

He was born in Beitstad

Beitstad

Beitstad is a village and former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village of Beitstad is located at the end of the Beitstadfjorden at the inner end of the Trondheimsfjord, about southwest of Vellamelen. It is a typical farming village that stretches from the bay and into the...

. After graduating in law, he worked at Inderøy District Court

Inderøy District Court

Inderøy District Court was a district court serving the municipalities of Steinkjer, Inderøy, Snåsa, Mosvik, Verran, and Namdalseid in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It was a court of first instance and cases decided here could be appealed to the Frostating Court of Appeal...

 from 1884 to 1886. He then started as a solicitor in Steinkjer

Steinkjer

is a town and a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer, which is also the seat of the county government...

. He was co-founder of Innherreds Kreditbank

Innherreds Kreditbank

Innherreds Kreditbank was a Norwegian bank based in Steinkjer.It was founded in 1887. People involved in the foundation were solicitor Halvor Bache Guldahl, merchant and mayor I. W. Klüwer, Jakob Gram and businessman and politician Ananias Kleven. Guldahl was the first director of the bank...

 in 1887, and was the first bank director. He later bought Ogndalsbruket and managed it from 1894 to 1902.

Guldahl was acting county governor from 1898 to 1902, while Ole Anton Qvam

Ole Anton Qvam

Ole Anton Qvam was the Norwegian Minister of Justice 1891-1893, 1898–1899 and 1900–1902, Minister of the Interior 1899-1900, as well as head of the Ministry of Auditing, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Justice in 1900, and Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm 1902-1903....

 was member of Parliament and later government minister. He was appointed county governor again in 1916, and sat until 1927. As county governor, he was one of the leading initiatives to found the county-owned power company Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk

Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk

Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk or NTE is a power company serving Nord-Trøndelag in Norway and owned by Nord-Trøndelag county municipality. NTE is one of the largest producers of electricity in Norway, with an annual production of 3,995 GWh per year...

 and the bus company Fylkesbilene i Nord-Trøndelag

TrønderBilene

TrønderBilene AS is a bus company operating in Trøndelag, Norway. As of 2009, it has 324 employees and 238 buses, and is owned by Torghatten ASA. The company operates both coach, bus, charter and school routes, as well as some truck and garage services. The areas of operation are Innherred,...

. He was Fylkesbilene's first chair.

He died in October 1931 in Oslo. His will left large assets, including a collection of paintings, to Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality

Nord-Trøndelag county municipality

Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality is the regional governing administration of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. The main responsibilities of the county municipality includes the running of 12 upper secondary schools, with 7,000 pupils...

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