Thomas Høie

Thomas Høie rowed as a member of the Christiania Roklub in the eight at the 1912 Olympic Games. The boat did not advance to the second round.

Høie began to study engineering in 1900 in Norway and graduated in 1905 from the Technical University in Dresden in Germany. He had his first employment in the Saxonia city of Halle at the Prussian State Railways bridge office from 1905–07. After his return to Norway, he worked for the Kristiania road administration from 1907-25. Høie then became secretary to the technical councilor and in 1929 head of the city’s emergency services. Eventually, he was appointed director of the city cleaning department.

Since 1926 he was secretary of the Vigeland-Committee, supporting the work of Norway’s most famous sculptor. For more than three decades (1908-40) Høie was a teacher at the technical evening school. In 1918, he married Louise Wilhelmine Collett and had two daughters and one son.