Tollef Kilde

Tollef Hansen Kilde (17 July 1853 – 2 January 1947) was a Norwegian forest owner, business founder and politician.

He was born in Åmot as a son of forest owner Hans Tollefsen Kilde (1822–1882) and Oline Grini (1827–1871).

He attended Sagatun Folk High School, the Norwegian College of Agriculture and the Forestry Academy in Tharandt.

[1] In the 1909 election he was fielded as the Liberal candidate in the single-member constituency Søndre Østerdalen, but ended a distant fourth behind the Labour Democrat, Liberal Left and Conservative candidates.

He also contributed to the foundation of the school in Rena, which is now a campus of Hedmark University College,[1] the fire insurance company Aamot Brandkasse and the local co-op.