Axel Sømme

Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme (19 April 1899 – 14 July 1991) was a Norwegian educator, economist and geographer.

His father was a shipowner who was a grandson of Jacob Kielland (1788–1863), one of the largest merchants in Stavanger.

In this position he was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for publishing articles encouraging the 1924 military strike.

From 1925 to 1932, Sømme was a teacher at Oslo Handelsgymnasium and then a lecturer and principal of Genèveskolen in Geneva (Nordisk folkehøyskole i Genève) from 1932 to 1935.

He became a lecturer in trade geography when the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen opened in 1936.