Personal life Arne Sunde was born on 6 December 1883 in the Norwegian capital
Kristiania. His parents were
Director General of the Norwegian State Railways, Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance
Elias Sunde and his wife Benedicte Louise Tjersland. On 26 July 1916, Arne Sunde married Sigrid Nicoline Aubert Lie (called "Didi", or "Titti"). On the other hand, Sunde's wife's aunt was the mother of resistance member
Tikken Manus. The couple had three sons by 1930. Sunde died in
Oslo on 30 July 1972, aged 88. He participated in the
Norwegian team in the
1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Sunde competed in the following events in 1912:
Education and early career Sunde was educated in law and military studies, first graduating from
Kristiania Cathedral School in 1902. From 1911 to 1912, he worked as a barrister and judge. In 1913, Sunde studied political science at the
École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He then served as a district stipendiary magistrate () for
Eiker, Modum and Sigdal District Court in
Buskerud from 1913 to 1914. In 1916, Sunde was appointed adjunct
military attaché to the Norwegian
legation in Paris, and in 1919 he was an assistant in financial questions for the Norwegian legation during the negotiations leading up to the
Treaty of Versailles. From 1918, he served as an infantry captain in the
Norwegian Army 2nd Division. Between 1917 and 1920, Sunde worked for
Det Norske A/S for Elektrokemisk Industri, as a legal advisor and . In the same time period he was the secretary of the Norwegian State Financial Council (), and from 1922 he served as a barrister at the Supreme Court. From 1920 to 1921, he was secretary during the Norwegian treaty negotiations with the so-called "wine countries" (France, Spain and
Portugal) with regards to the Norwegian
prohibition. In 1924, he was a board member of the bank
Den Norske Handelsbank and a member of the administrative board of the
Bank of Norway. Arne Sunde was among a number of prominent Norwegians to sign a declaration calling on Norway's conservative parties to approach King
Haakon VII and ask him to request that Nansen form a government of national unity to replace Lykke's Cabinet. In 1929 Sunde became deputy mayor of
Aker, where he now lived. He advanced to mayor of the same municipality in 1930, and serving until 1931 with the exception of his Minister of Justice period. when the Agrarian
Kolstad's Cabinet took over. He was a member of the
Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
Supreme Court Justice and banker After his initial political career Sunde first served for one year as a Justice of the
Supreme Court of Norway before taking up banking, holding the position of the head of the Oslo office of the bank
Bergens Privatbank ==Second World War==