Ole Paus (general)

Major General Ole Paus
General Ole Paus
Birth name	Ole von Paus
Born	(1910-10-26)26 October 1910 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	6 April 2003(2003-04-06) (aged 92) Oslo, Norway
Allegiance	Norway
Service / branch	Norwegian Army
Years of service	1932–1974
Rank	Major General
Commands	District commander of Trøndelag Land deputy commander, Allied Forces Northern Europe
Battles / wars	World War II Cold War
Awards	Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav Commander of the Order of the Sword

Ole Otto Paus (26 October 1910 – 6 April 2003), né Ole von Paus, was a Norwegian General, diplomat and NATO official. During the Second World War he was an aide-de-camp to the Norwegian commander-in-chief, General Otto Ruge, during the German invasion of Norway in 1940, and was later head of the army group in the military intelligence service of the exile Norwegian High Command in London and thus one of the founders of the Norwegian Intelligence Service. During the Cold War he served as a military attaché in Stockholm and Helsingfors during the 1950s, was promoted to general in 1964 and was commander-in-chief in Central Norway from 1964 to 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he was the Norwegian representative in the NATO military command for Northern Europe, Allied Forces Northern Europe. As such he was the highest-ranking Norwegian in NATO's command structure.