Albert Viljam Hagelin

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Albert Viljam Hagelin (1942)

Albert Viljam Hagelin (born April 24, 1881 in Bergen , † May 25, 1946 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian businessman and opera singer. He supported the invasion of Norway by the Wehrmacht in 1939/40 and became a minister in the collaboration government led by Vidkun Quisling . In 1946 he was executed in Norway .

Life

Albert Viljam Hagelin lived in Germany for a long time, where he was trained as an opera singer . He also studied architecture . He had contacts with high-ranking members of the NSDAP . In 1936 he met Vidkun Quisling for the first time while on vacation in Norway and joined his fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS). He then returned to Germany and was not particularly active in the party before 1940.

In June 1939, Hagelin arranged for Quisling to visit Berlin, where he brought Quisling together with Alfred Rosenberg . During Quisling's crucial visit to Berlin in December 1939, it was above all Hagelin and his German contact, Hans-Wilhelm Scheidt ( Head of the Reich Main Office in the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP ), who started talks between Quisling and Hitler on December 14, 1939 . Hagelin acted as a consultant and interpreter for Quisling in negotiations with the Germans. On December 23, 1939, Hagelin and his wife moved from Dresden to Oslo, on the same day as Hans-Wilhelm Scheidt. In support of the Nazi party newspaper Fritt Folk , Scheidt had brought 50,000 pounds in counterfeit banknotes in a suitcase, which were distributed in several Oslo banks. The party newspaper was then able to double the circulation, and the NS moved into an elegant new headquarters .

After the start of the invasion and the coup d'état of the NS on April 9, 1940, Hagelin was appointed acting Minister for Trade and Supply. On September 25, 1940, he changed the department as acting interior minister. On February 1, 1942, he was confirmed as Minister of the Interior in his office. Hagelin was not popular among the old party members of the NS, he was considered an outsider and a corrupt upstart. In the autumn of 1943, the NS set up an internal party committee to clarify the corruption allegations , which, however, came to no conclusion. Hagelin resigned on November 8, 1944.

Hagelin was sentenced to death by shooting by a Norwegian court after the war and was executed in Akershus Fortress in 1946, where many of the 37 others sentenced to death were also shot.

literature

  • Hans Fredrik Dahl: Quisling: A Study in Treachery , translated into English by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. Cambridge University Press, London 1999. ISBN 0-521-49697-7 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Viljam Hagelin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church register of the cathedral church in Bergen , Volume B6 (1879–1887), entry no. 120, p. 95.
  2. ↑ Hans Fredrik Dahl: Quisling: A Study in Treachery . Pp. 139-141.
  3. ↑ Hans Fredrik Dahl: Quisling: A Study in Treachery . Pp. 161-162.
personal data
SURNAME Hagelin, Albert Viljam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian collaborator, Minister in the Quisling government (1940–1944)
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1946
Place of death Oslo