Thorvald Løchen (1861–1943) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician.

degree in 1883, and then began to work in the Ministry of the Interior from 1891 to 1900.

He was the chief executive of the Ministry of Agriculture from 1900 to 1902.

[2] During his time in Nordre Trondhjem county, the first part of the Nordlandsbanen railway line, then called the Hell-Sunnan line, was completed.

Løchen also participated in the investigation and planning of the next section of the line heading northwards, a question which was decided at an extraordinary county council meeting in 1915, although that portion of the track was not completed until 1926–1929.