Nikolai Ramm Østgaard

From 1908 to 1913 he taught physical education and mathematics in Kristiania, while he spent several winters as a ski coach in Central Europe.

[1] In 1914 he became the personal trainer of Crown Prince Olav of Norway, by recommendation of his employer at school, Sigurd Halling.

[1] Østgaard was himself an able ski jumper and Nordic combined skier,[1] and won three Norwegian football cups with his club SFK Lyn in 1908, 1910 and 1911.

During the Norwegian campaign which followed the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, Østgaard served with the royal family in their flight northwards and then to the United Kingdom.

[1] Nikolai's son Einar (1929–2012) wrote two accounts on the royal family's flight in 1940; Reisen hun ikke ønsket (2005) and Kongen i krig (2009).