Nikolai Prebensen

Nikolai Christian Grove Prebensen (13 April 1850 – 24 May 1938) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in the town of Risør as a son of Jacob Wetlesen Prebensen (1808–1892) and Wencke Kristiane Grove.

He was hired as a clerk in the Ministry of Church Affairs in 1876, and from 1878 to 1881 he was a deputy judge in Romsdal District Court.

[1] In 1905, he chaired the "Special Committee" that prepared the establishment of a Norwegian consulate service, and thus the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.

When the union was dissolved and Norway could appoint its own diplomats, Prebensen became the ambassador ("minister") to the Russian Empire in 1906.