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{{short description|Norwegian footballer, bandy player and ship-owner}}
{{for|the Norwegian sailor|Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen Jr.}}
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[[File:Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen.jpg|thumb|Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen, c. 1935]]
'''Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen''' (15 February 1894 – 24 February 1962)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Halvdan Ditlev-Simonsen, Shipowner|url=https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collection/producer/43272|access-date=2020-07-16|website=Nasjonalmuseet|language=en}}</ref> was a Norwegian multi-sportsman, sports executive and ship-owner.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Halvdan Ditlev-Simonsen & Co|url=https://www.maritime-database.com/company.php?cid=256776|access-date=|website=www.maritime-database.com}}</ref>

== Early life ==
He was a son of ship-owner [[Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen]]. He finished secondary education in 1911, attended a mercantile school and underwent training as an [[average adjuster]] and shipbroker.

== Ship career ==
He worked as a ship-owner out of [[Oslo|Kristiania]] from 1914. He was a co-owner of the company Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen & Co. and a board member of several other ship holding companies, as well as [[Akers Mekaniske Verksted]]. He was also a board member of the [[Norwegian Shipowners' Association]] from 1928 to 1937 and the [[Nordisk Defence Club]] from 1929.<ref name="hvem48">{{cite encyclopedia|year=1948|title=Ditlev-Simonsen, Halfdan|encyclopedia=[[Hvem er hvem?]]|editor1=Gram, Harald|editor2=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1948/0119.html|page=119|language=Norwegian|access-date=9 June 2020}}</ref>

== Sporting career ==
Representing [[IF Ready]], Ditlev-Simonsenwas capped 7 times and scored 3 goals for [[Norway national football team|Norway's national football team]] between 1912 and 1916.<ref>{{NFF|2604956}}</ref> He was also capped in [[bandy]], and for IF Ready he won 13 Norwegian titles in bandy. At one point, the team comprised Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen and his four brothers [[John Ditlev-Simonsen|John]], [[Olaf Christian Ditlev-Simonsen|Olaf Christian]], [[Sverre Ditlev-Simonsen|Sverre]] and [[Aage Ditlev-Simonsen|Aage]]. He was president of [[Norway's Bandy Association]] from 1920 to 1924 and of the [[Norwegian Tennis Federation]] from 1924 to 1926.<ref name="hvem48" /> During the [[German occupation of Norway]] he was imprisoned in [[Grini concentration camp]] from January to May 1942.<ref>{{cite book|editor=[[Kristian Ottosen|Ottosen, Kristian]]|title=Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945|edition=2nd|year=2004|publisher=Universitetsforlaget|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-15-00288-9|page=168}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{NFT|66544}}
* {{WorldFootball.net|halfdan-ditlev-simonsen}}

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[[Category:1894 births]]
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[[Category:Sportspeople from Oslo]]
[[Category:Norwegian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Norway men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Norwegian bandy players]]
[[Category:Norwegian sports executives and administrators]]
[[Category:Norwegian businesspeople in shipping]]
[[Category:Grini concentration camp survivors]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]