Borgen Bøe

Borgen Bøe , also Borgen Olsen Bøe (born November 30, 1908 in Klepp , Rogaland ; † December 29, 1941 in Trandumskogen in Ullensaker ) was a Norwegian resistance fighter against National Socialism and the German occupation forces.

Example and resistance

Born as the second child of father Ola Rasmussen Bøe (* 1883) and mother Kristine, nee Stangeland (* 1886), he had two siblings: Ingebjørg (1910-1959) and Rasmus (1906-1983). He attended middle school and commercial high school, was a factory manager (Norwegian: dispatcher ) in Stavanger .

Bøe took part in the war against Germany until Norway's surrender on June 10, 1940 and then went into the resistance. Against the background of military training, a resistance group with war comrades from Stavanger was set up. It operated espionage for the Allies through the military facilities of the German air force bases in Sola and Forus , today Stavanger Airport , through the German shipyard activities in the port of Stavanger, as well as propaganda and industrial sabotage.

One member of the group was a Sipo collaborator and betrayed the entire group.

Arrest and execution

Bøe was arrested at his home in Stavanger on July 30, 1941, and transferred from the Stavanger District Prison to Oslo to Akershus Fortress in November 1941 . He and his ten comrades, who were also arrested, were looked after by the pastor and later Bishop of Tunsberg Dagfinn Hauge .

The Reich Court Martial sentenced him to death in December 1941; a petition for clemency was rejected. Wehrmacht soldiers under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Oscar Hans shot the entire group on December 29th on the military training area of the Trandum barracks ( Trandum leir ) in the Trandumer Wald in Flatnermoen , a location near a tank gun . A German field preacher was present; the dead were anonymously buried in wooden coffins in the mass grave. This was the first of a further 17 mass executions in the Trandum Forest by September 1944.

After the war

Immediately after the Wehrmacht surrendered on May 8, 1945, the graves, which had been badly camouflaged by replanting, were searched for. Eighteen mass graves were found with a total of 211 bodies, of which 183 were identified by dental records, including the 11 group with Bøe. The site is marked today with a stone cross and stone with the inscription: Grav 18 . The eleven exhumed were then buried in the cemetery in Eiganes , a district of Stavanger.

Memorials

Name on the large memorial wall under the heading: Grav 18, Flatnermoen, December 29, 1941 , on the execution site in the Trandumer Wald ( Trandumskogen ) in Ullensaker , the entire complex is now a Norwegian national monument, commemorative events take place on the Norwegian national holiday , May 17 .
Commemorative plaque with a quote from his farewell letter and a short biography in several languages at the Monumento alla Resistenza europea in Como.

literature

Dagfinn Hauge: Slik dør menn = This is how men die , published by the Luther Foundation = Lutherstiftelsen, Oslo 1945, further information on Bøe and his group up to the burial in Stavanger.
Våre Falne = Our Fallen , published by the Norwegian State, Oslo 1950, with a biography of Bøe.
Piero Malvezzi and Giovanni Pirelli: Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea , publisher: Giulio Einaudi, Turin 1954, German: Last letters to death condemned , publisher: dtv, Munich 1962, page 205-207: Chronology of the Norwegian resistance with background information on the German punitive actions, page 210-211: short biography and farewell letter.

Web links

Monument in the Trandumer Forest on the website gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de.
Museum Ullensaker Information on the entire resistance group.

Remarks

↑ Hauge wrote a book about it in which he compared the twelve resistance fighters with the twelve apostles , among whom a Judas had crept, see literature.
↑ after Dagfinn Hauge, see literature.
^ Message about this first execution in the Norwegian exile News of Norway , published by the Royal Norwegian Government's Press Representative, Washington DC, Issue 47, January 10, 1942, page 2: 11 NORWEGIANS EXECUTED AT STAVANGER The 1941 Christmas holidays were anything but merry at Stavanger where the closing days of the year saw 11 men die before German firing squads , and the city as a whole fined two million kroner for sabotage and anti-German demonstration. Those executed were Carl Oftedal, a doctor; Thomas Fjermestad. a bookkeeper; Karluf Boe, an office worker; Einar Hoseth, a sign painter; Arnt Plessner Pedersen, a business man; Georg Helland, a custom officer; Olav Ragnvald Olsson, a watchman; Martin Jacobsen, a warehouse employee; John Nielsen, a salesman; Borgen Boe , a manager; and Gerorg Fjellberg, a smith. All were residents of Stavanger. The exact nature of the charges brought against the 11 men has not been made clear, but it is believed to be espionage and sabotage. Four other Stavanger men - named Oundersen, Ottestad, Langerland and Mogner - were given prison sentences, ranging form 2 to 8 years, at the same time.

personal data
SURNAME	Bøe, Borgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bøe, Borgen Olsen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klepp , Rogaland
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1941
Place of death	Trandumskogen , Ullensaker

[1] Hauge wrote a book about it in which he compared the twelve resistance fighters with the twelve apostles , among whom a Judas had crept, see literature.

[2] ter Dagfinn Hauge, see literature.

[3] Message about this first execution in the Norwegian exile News of Norway , published by the Royal Norwegian Government's Press Representative, Washington DC, Issue 47, January 10, 1942, page 2: 11 NORWEGIANS EXECUTED AT STAVANGER The 1941 Christmas holidays were anything but merry at Stavanger where the closing days of the year saw 11 men die before German firing squads , and the city as a whole fined two million kroner for sabotage and anti-German demonstration. Those executed were Carl Oftedal, a doctor; Thomas Fjermestad. a bookkeeper; Karluf Boe, an office worker; Einar Hoseth, a sign painter; Arnt Plessner Pedersen, a business man; Georg Helland, a custom officer; Olav Ragnvald Olsson, a watchman; Martin Jacobsen, a warehouse employee; John Nielsen, a salesman; Borgen Boe , a manager; and Gerorg Fjellberg, a smith. All were residents of Stavanger. The exact nature of the charges brought against the 11 men has not been made clear, but it is believed to be espionage and sabotage. Four other Stavanger men - named Oundersen, Ottestad, Langerland and Mogner - were given prison sentences, ranging form 2 to 8 years, at the same time.