Gunnar Rogstad

Gunnar Rogstad (9 March 1916 – 10 June 2012) was a Norwegian civil servant and diplomat.

He was born in Fana as a son of Abraham Rogstad and Ragna née Habel.

[1] In 1942, while Norway was occupied by Germany, Rogstad entered the Norwegian foreign service as a clerk at the consulate-general in Allied-occupied Iceland.

Following an intermittent stay as vice consul in Cape Town from 1948 to 1952, Rogstad was promoted to head of department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1953.

After a stint as councillor of trade at the Norwegian embassy in Bonn from 1956, he was promoted once more to subdirector in 1960, then deputy under-secretary of state in 1965.