Alf R. Bjercke

Alf Richard Bjercke (30 May 1921 – 9 December 2011[1]) was a Norwegian business magnate, consul and sports official.

[4] Alf R. Bjercke attended primary school at Majorstuen, in a class together with Øistein Parmann, Birger Mathisen and Rolf Kirkvaag.

[2] He pledged the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI),[7] but his studies were interrupted because of Bjercke's wish to participate in World War II.

[8] He also served in the Air Force from 1948 to 1949, and reached the rank of major[9] as Senior Intelligence Officer in NATO's Northern HQ.

[11] His interest in the topic spawned when he discovered that a distant ancestor from the Eidsvoll area had been such a dragoon.

[4] In 1999 the University of Kiel published a work by Bjercke, Norwegische Kätnersöhne als königliche Dragoner.

He has also held board/council memberships in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the World Wildlife Fund, Norway and the Norway-America Association, and has been involved in Rotary International.

[9] He has been an initiator for restoration of the world's oldest steamship Skibladner for traffic,[5] and has vice-chaired the board that is responsible for the ship Christian Radich.