{{Short description|Norwegian steel industrialist and lawyer}} [[File:Per Paus.jpg|thumb|Per Paus]] '''Per Christian Cornelius Paus''' (born 28 April 1910 in [[Oslo]], died 15 December 1986) was a Norwegian steel industrialist and lawyer.
==Background== He was a member of the patrician [[Paus family]] and was a son of the steel industrialist Christopher Blom Paus and a grandson of the steel industrialist [[Ole Paus (businessman)|Ole Paus]], who founded the [[Ole Paus (company)|Ole Paus steel company]] in 1872. In 1937 Per Paus married Countess Hedevig [[Wedel-Jarlsberg]], a daughter of Lord Chamberlain [[Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg]]. They acquired the estate [[Esviken]] from her parents in 1948; Esviken had been the summer residence of the Wedel-Jarlsberg family and [[King Haakon VII]] often visited there in his father-in-law's lifetime.<ref>[http://www.esviken.no/historie/ Historie], esviken.no</ref>
Per and Hedevig Paus were the parents of Cornelia Paus, ship-owner and investor [[Christopher Paus (businessman)|Christopher Paus]], and oil and gas investor [[Peder Paus (businessman)|Peder Paus]].<ref>Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg, ''Lensgreve Herman Wedel Jarlsberg's etterslekt'', Cammermeyer, 1950</ref> [[Cecilie Paus]], one of the main owners of [[Wilh. Wilhelmsen]] since 1978, is their daughter-in-law. The designer [[Pontine Paus]] is their granddaughter.
==Career== Per Paus was educated as lawyer and graduated with the [[cand.jur.]] (LL.M.) degree at the [[University of Oslo|Royal Frederick University]] in 1934. He also studied French at the [[University of Paris]].
He was employed by the [[Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company]] in England from 1936 and joined his family's company Ole Paus as a partner in 1939. He succeeded his father as managing director and sole owner in 1951.
He was a board member of the Steel Wholesalers' Association and a member of the council of [[Oslo City Museum]].<ref>"Paus, Per," in ''Næringslivets menn i Norden'', 1950, p. 966</ref>
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