Knut Skaaluren
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Knut Skaaluren (11 October 1916 – 4 March 1996) was a Norwegian shipbuilder and politician for the Centre Party.
He was educated at Bergen Technical School.[1] His shipyard Skaalurens Skibsbyggeri in Rosendal built a number of different vessels, though wooden boats were discontinued in 1955 and fishing vessels were discontinued in 1969. After that, the shipyard mainly built car ferries.[2] It was a family company started by his great-grandfather Tørris Skaaluren in the 1850s; in 1974 it became a limited company and in the early 1980s, Knut's son who was also named Tørris Skaaluren took over.[1]
Knut Skaaluren served on the municipal council for Kvinnherad Municipality from 1951 to 1971, serving as mayor from 1960 to 1963.[1] He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland during the terms 1961–1965 and 1965–1969. In total he met during 52 days of parliamentary session.[3]
He sat on a number of local and regional boards and committees, mainly in the shipbuilding industry as well as the banking sector. He was chairman of the board of Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap, a board member of Det Norske Luftfartsselskap and supervisory coucil member of SAS.[1] He died in March 1996 at the age of 79.[4]