Trygve Dehli Laurantzon was a Norwegian agronomist and newspaper editors
Background
He was born in Kristiania as a son of Major General Jacob Ager Laurantzon (1878–1965) and Bergljot Dehli (1878–1968). On the maternal side he was a grandson of jurist and organizational leader Ole Dehli, and a nephew of Halfdan Gyth Dehli.
Career
As such he was a brother-in-law of Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg, farmer and Member of Parliament from Furnes. Laurantzon died in May 1975 in Hamar. During the German occupation of Norway he edited the magazine Norsk Jord from 1941 to 1945.
During the last phase of the Second World War he edited the newspaper Nationen for two and a half months, and headed the collaborationist Quisling regime"s Ministry of Agriculture for a short period from April to May 1945.
In the legal purge in Norway after World World War II he was convicted of treason and sentenced to fifteen years of forced labor, only to be released in 1950.