Henriette Bie Lorentzen

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Henriette Bie Lorentzen

Henriette Bie Lorentzen (born July 18,  1911 in Vestre Aker ; † August 23, 2001 in Oslo ), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas ( pronunciation : [ hɔɡɔs ]), was a Norwegian humanist , peace activist , feminist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, known as Henriette Haagaas until 1938, was the daughter of the mathematician Theodor Haagaas , granddaughter of the theologian Bernhard Pauss  and great-granddaughter of the industrialist Benjamin Wegner from Königsberg . It was named after her Hanseatic great-grandmother Henriette Seyler , daughter of the Hamburg banker LE Seyler , and after her great-great-grandmother, Anna Henriette Goßler . Her family on her mother's side owned the Berenberg Bank in Hamburg. In 1938 she was married to Øyvind Bie Lorentzen, a member of the Lorentzen shipping family . Erling Lorentzen , the husband of Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen , was a distant relative of her husband.

Main building of the Nansenskolen in Lillehammer (2009)

In the late 1930s she was one of the founding circle of the Nansenschule ( Nansenskolen - Norsk Humanistisk Akademi ) in Lillehammer .

During the Second World War , together with her husband and her cousin Henrik Groth , she was active in the non-violent resistance against National Socialism and was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp by the German occupiers as a prisoner of night and fog . After the liberation, she returned to Norway and became editor and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden (1945–1955).

Honors

Bie Lorentzen was awarded the St. Hallvard Medal in 1995, the highest honor in Oslo.

The Henriette-Bie-Lorentzen-Haus at the Oslo and Akershus University of Applied Sciences is named after her.

In 2013 she was voted one of the “100 Most Important Women” in Norwegian history by readers of the Verdens Gang newspaper .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petter Henriksen (ed.): Henriette Bie Lorentzen. In: Store norske leksikon . Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo 2005–2007.
  2. ^ Sofie Rogstad: Henriette Bie Lorentzen. In: Jon Gunnar Arntzen: Norsk biografisk leksikon . Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo 1999-2005.
  3. ↑ Guri Hjeltnes: Henriette Bie Lorentzen. In: Hans Fredrik Dahl: Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–45 . Cappelen, Oslo 1995.
  4. ↑ Speech by the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on the opening of the exhibition “1945 - Defeat. Liberation. New beginning. ”In the German Historical Museum on April 23, 2015 in Berlin
  5. ↑ Norges 100 viktigste kvinner. In: vg.no. Retrieved January 30, 2015 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Bie Lorentzen, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haagaas, Anna Henriette Wegner (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian humanist, peace activist, feminist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vestre Aker
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2001
Place of death Oslo