Background
He was born in Bergen, to a mother from Bergen and a father from Førde.
He was born in Bergen, to a mother from Bergen and a father from Førde.
He was a teacher by occupation. He also contributed to newspapers such as Bergens Arbeiderblad. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he listened to illegal radio broadcasts from the British Broadcasting Corporation, and distributed the news among German soldiers.
He was discovered by the Nazi authorities, arrested on 8 October 1941 and executed on 22 November 1941.
He was the first Norwegian with a connection to the illegal press to be executed, and according to Berit Nøkleby"s count the seventeenth overall.
