Peter Motzfeldt (3 August 1777 – 1 April 1854) was a member of the constitutional assembly in Norway in 1814, then a Norwegian member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1814-1816, 1818-1819, 1824-1825, 1828-1829, 1831-1832, and 1834-1835, Minister of the Army 1816-1818 and 1819-1822, and Minister of Auditing 1829-1831, 1832-1834, 1835-1836 and 1836-1837.
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