Kristian Gerhard Jebsen was a Norwegian ship-owner.

He was born in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 as a son of ship-owner Kristian Jebsen (1901–1967) and Sissi Kjerland (1904–1993). He was a great-grandson of factory owner and ship-owner Peter Jebsen

Peter Jebsen

Peter Jebsen was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.After working in the cloth industry for a relative in Hamburg, he moved to Bergen in 1843, bought a river in Arna for 200 specidaler borrowed money and started manufacturing cloth; as one of the first manufactures in the country, profits...

, grandson of Kristian Gerhard Sundt Jebsen and grandnwphew of Gustav Adolf Jebsen

Gustav Adolf Jebsen

-Personal life:He was born in Bergen as the youngest son of factory owner and ship-owner Peter Jebsen and Sophie Catharina Sundt . He was a brother of Kristian Gerhard Sundt Jebsen and maternal grandson of Christian Gerhard Ameln Sundt. In 1917 he married attorney's daughter Lilla Døscher...

. He was also a brother of Atle Jebsen

Atle Jebsen

Atle Jebsen was a Norwegian businessperson and ship-owner.Jebsen was born in Bergen in 1935 and was a great-grandson of Peter Jebsen. He was one of the most important persons in the Norwegian shipping during the turbulent 1960s and created the Jebsen Group during the 1970s.Atle Jebsen died in a...

. In 1953 he married Aud Munkeberg, born 1931.

He finished

Examen artium

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 his secondary education in 1944, and after the Second World War he worked for the Allied United Maritime Authority in London

London

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 until 1946. He then studied at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 until 1948 when he took the bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He worked in New York and London before being hired in the family company Kristian Jebsens Rederi

Jebsens

Kristian Jebsens Rederi usually known as Jebsens was a short sea liner shipping company founded in 1929. Operations were ceased i 1993 when the company merged its operations with Paal Wilson & Co to form Jebsen Wilson Euro Carriers...

 in 1953. He was a board member from 1957. A disagreement developed between Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, his father and his brother, and in 1967 Kristian Gerhard Jebsen founded a new company, Kristian Gerhard Jebsens Skipsrederi. In 1968 he founded Gearbulk as a cooperation between his company and three others. His company sold its share of Gearbulk in 1985, to his family's company Jebsens

Jebsens

Kristian Jebsens Rederi usually known as Jebsens was a short sea liner shipping company founded in 1929. Operations were ceased i 1993 when the company merged its operations with Paal Wilson & Co to form Jebsen Wilson Euro Carriers...

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Kristian Gerhard Jebsen moved back to Great Britain in 1993 and died in London in February 2004.