Office: | Norwegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
Term Start: | 1910 |
Term End: | 1934 |
Primeminister: | Wollert Konow Jens Bratlie Gunnar Knudsen Otto B. Halvorsen Otto Blehr Abraham Berge J. L. Mowinckel Christopher Hornsrud Peder Kolstad Jens Hundseid |
Predecessor: | Johannes Irgens |
Successor: | Erik Colban |
Term Start2: | 1 September 1904 |
Term End2: | 11 March 1905 |
Primeminister2: | Francis Hagerup |
Predecessor2: | Jacob Schøning |
Successor2: | Sofus Arctander |
Office3: | Minister of Auditing |
Term Start3: | 1 September 1904 |
Term End3: | 11 March 1905 |
Primeminister3: | Francis Hagerup |
Predecessor3: | Birger Kildal |
Successor3: | Gunnar Knudsen |
Office4: | Member of the Council of State Division |
Term Start4: | 22 October 1903 |
Term End4: | 1 September 1904 |
Alongside4: | Christian Michelsen |
Predecessor4: | Elias Sunde Sigurd Ibsen |
Successor4: | Birger Kildal Jacob Schøning |
Birth Name: | Paul Benjamin Vogt |
Birth Date: | 16 May 1863 |
Birth Place: | Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Sweden-Norway |
Death Place: | Oslo, Norway |
Party: | Conservative |
Paul Benjamin Vogt (16 May 1863 – 1 January 1947) was a Norwegian politician of the Conservative Party who served as a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1903–1904, Minister of Trade and Minister of Auditing 1904–1905. In 1905, he was Norway's emissary to Stockholm to negotiate Norwegian independence from Sweden. He also served as the Norway's minister in London 1910–1934.
He was born in Kristiansand as a son of politician Niels Petersen Vogt (1817–1894) and Kaia Ancher Arntzen (1819–1870). He was a brother of editor Nils Vogt (1859–1927) and a second cousin of Johan Herman Lie Vogt, Nils Collett Vogt and Ragnar Vogt.[1]
He completed his examen artium at Oslo Cathedral School in 1880 before studying law at university.[1]
In April 1888 he married Andrea Severine "Daisy" Heyerdahl (1864–1946), daughter of a physician.[1] They had several children. Stener Vogt became a businessman and consul.[2] Their daughter Alethe Heyerdahl Vogt married businessman Fredrik C. Blom.[3] Their daughter Daisy Vogt was the first wife of Diderich H. Lund.[4] Another daughter Marie Leigh "Leiken" Vogt was the wife of Ferdinand Schjelderup, then a cohabitant with Emil Stang Jr.[5]