Wilhelm Hansen Færden

Wilhelm Hansen Færden (2 December 1852 – 14 October 1923) was a Norwegian military officer and politician.

He was born in Christiania as a son of captain Anders Olsen Færden and Sofie Marthine Hansen.

[2] In October 1877 in Berg, Østfold he married Ragna D. Sørensen (1854–1916).

He was the director of Statens Krudtverk at Skar from 1889 to 1897, leader of the 1st Line Battery from 1897 to 1911, leader of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment from 1911 to December 1917; and also manager of the field artillery shooting school from 1913 to 1917.

When he died in Kristiania in October 1923, he was the Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons.