Erling Brinchmann

Erling Brinchmann (21 March 1897 – 29 August 1988) was a Norwegian chief of police.

After finishing his secondary education in 1915, he studied law and graduated with the cand.jur.

Following a time as deputy judge, he worked in a bank before being hired as police prosecutor in Inntrøndelag in 1923.

He was a member of the Friends of Folk Song Club (Norwegian: Visens venner).

[1] He lived for a few years in Oslo before emigrating to Copenhagen, where he died in 1988.