Background
Sunde was born in Bergen in 1915.
Sunde was born in Bergen in 1915.
University of Oslo, 1941, Degree in Law. Spoken languages: Norwegian, English, German.
His family moved from Holsnøy to Oslo in 1930. During World World War II, Sunde was a leader of a local group of Milorg, the Norwegian armed resistance against the Nazi occupation. Sunde was present at Akershus Fortress in Oslo on May 8, 1945, when Germany capitulated and formally handed the fortress over to Milorg.
The Norwegian flag was raised for the first time since 1940, and Norway was a free and sovereign nation again.
After the war, Sunde worked as a lawyer for the (Liaison Office), where he headed their legal department. He represented workers and opposed employers in many groundbreaking court cases.
The author Jostein Nyhamar writes, "Number other labour movement issue caused so much prolonged and heated debate in the press as the issue of collective insurance," an issue with which Sunde was heavily involved. Sunde was admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court of Norway.
Hjort had left Nasjonal Samling, but the tension between Sunde and Hjort was noticeable.
Sunde was later Norwegian legal counsel at the International Labour Organisation (International Labor Organization), a United Nations subsidiary based in Geneva. He was the workers" representative on the International Language Center Credentials Committee for six sessions. An interpreter to the Norwegian delegation to the International Labor Organization International Labour Conference, Mirjam Nordahl, states that Sunde was part of the Norwegian delegation to this lawmaking body in the 1960s and 1970s and that he was later employed by the International Labour Office, the permanent executive branch of the International Labor Organization.