Wilhelm Rediess

Wilhelm Rediess

male, deceased (1945)
Holocaust perpetrator, committed suicide, suicide by firearm, second world war, SS and Police Leader, General…Nazi leader, German occupation of Norway, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany, death by firearm
Wilhelm Rediess was the SS and Police Leader during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. He was also the commanding General...
Halvdan Koht

Halvdan Koht

male, deceased (1965)
German attack, nynorsk, historian, socialist, labour party, Foreign minister…university of oslo, Occupation, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany, Liberal Party of Norway
Halvdan Koht was a Norwegian historian, biographer, and Foreign minister (Labour party) 1935-40. Raised under modest circumstances in Tromsø and S...
Erik Bye

Erik Bye

male, deceased (2004)
cancer death, University of Wisconsin, Ringerike, Norwegian resistance movement, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany, Nordstrand…Nordstrand, Norway, Order of St. Olav, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Occupation
Erik Erikssønn Bye was a Norwegian journalist and artist, and one of the 20th century's most well-known and popular radio and television p...
Birger Ruud

Birger Ruud

male, deceased (1998)
Ski jumper at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Alpine skier at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ski jumper at the 1932 Winter Olympics, Ski jumper at the 1948 Winter Olympics, Grini, German occupation of Norway…OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany
Birger Ruud was a Norwegian ski jumper. Born in Kongsberg, Birger Ruud, with his brothers Sigmund and Asbjørn, dominated international jumping in t...
Bernt Balchen

Bernt Balchen

male, deceased (1973)
theater, Tveit, Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. Air Force, Norwegian-American, Recipient of Distinguished Service Medal…Theater of war, occupied Norway, Little Norway, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany, Explorer of Antarctica
Bernt Balchen, D.F.C., (23 October 1899 - 17 October 1973), was a Norwegian-American polar (and general) aviation pioneer. Born at the farm Myren...
Kirsten Hansteen

Kirsten Hansteen

female, deceased (1974)
Kvinnen og tiden, World War II, Government minister of Norway, Nazi Germany, German occupation, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany…Communist Party of Norway
Kirsten Hansteen (1903-1974) was the Norwegian appointed Minister of Social Affairs in 1945, and the first ever female member of cabinet in Norway....
Adam Egede-Nissen

Adam Egede-Nissen

male
Nazi occupation of Norway, World War II, Liberal Party of Norway, lenin, russian revolution, social democratic…Communist Party of Norway, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany
Adam Egede-Nissen (1868 - 1952), Norwegian Communist politician. Born in Levanger and he started his political involvement in the Liberal Party of...

Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer

male, deceased (1948)
norwegian, World War II, executed Nazi leader, German, world war 2, german shepherd dog…executed by firing squad, OccupationofNorwaybyNaziGermany
Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer was a German Gestapo officer during World War 2. He spent the war with the Gestapo branch in Norway during the Occupation...