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{{Short description|Norwegian civil servant and lawyer}}
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'''Jacob Benjamin Wegner''' (9 December 1868 in [[Oslo|Christiania]] &ndash; 31 August 1949)<ref name="Prokuratorer" /><ref name="Wegner">{{cite book |last=Wegner |first=Rolf B. (the Elder) |year=1963 |title= Familien Wegner |location=Halden |publisher=s.n. }}</ref> was a Norwegian civil servant and lawyer, who served as district judge, magistrate, chief of police (corresponding to [[chief constable]]) of  [[Helgeland]] and [[Rogaland]], and [[County governor (Norway)|governor]] of [[Romsdal]].
He was a son of the timber merchant Heinrich Benjamin [[Wegner (Norwegian family)|Wegner]] and Henriette Frederikke Vibe i Oslo, and a grandson of the industrialist [[Benjamin Wegner]] and of the classical philologist [[Frederik Ludvig Vibe]]. He was the father of judge and chief of police [[Rolf B. Wegner (1898–1986)|Rolf Benjamin Wegner]] and the grandfather of chief of police [[Rolf B. Wegner|Rolf Benjamin Wegner]].
Following his [[examen artium]] university entrance exam, he graduated with the [[cand.jur.]] degree in 1891. He became a deputy judge in [[Larvik (town)|Larvik]] in 1892 and was acting district judge in Larvik 1893–1894. He was called to the bar in 1894 and briefly practiced as a barrister in Larvik. From 1895 he held a number of offices in an acting capacity; he was district judge in [[Brevik, Norway|Brevik]] for one year, district judge in [[Porsgrunn (town)|Porsgrunn]] for half a year and chief of police and magistrate of [[Bodø (town)|Bodø]] from 1897. In early 1898, he became deputy governor of Romsdal, and from 1900 he was acting governor of Romsdal for one year. In 1901 he became bailiff of Southern [[Helgeland]] and following an administrative reform, he became chief of police of Helgeland in 1910. In 1917 he became chief of police of [[Rogaland]]. He retired in 1938.<ref name="Prokuratorer">"[http://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/c20145ef74b77cfa823b983b0f2211f6?index=25#609 Wegner, Jacob Benjamin]," in Magnus Mardal, ''Norges prokuratorer, sakførere og advokater 1660–1905'', vol. III, part 2, section I AA–F, p. 602</ref><ref>"[http://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/db4c333b12972bf628d58cdbe68cd8cd?index=5#300 Jacob Benjamin Wegner]," in ''Studenterne fra 1897'', pp. 281–282, Christiania, 1912</ref>
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