Jens Christian Hauge

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Jens Christian Hauge in 1947.

Jens Christian Hauge (born May 15, 1915 in Nordstrand , † October 30, 2006 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian resistance fighter , politician and minister .

Life

After attending school, Hauge completed a law degree , which he completed in 1937 with an exam and admission to the bar the following year. After the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht on April 9, 1940, he dealt with pricing and rationalization policy from 1940 to 1941, before he was a lecturer in law at the University of Oslo . In 1941 he began his activity in the resistance movement and was captured that autumn and imprisoned for a few months. After his release in 1942 he rose quickly within the resistance movement and within a year became head of the secret military organization Milorg . He has sought good relations with the former Prime Minister (Statsminister) Johan Nygaardsvold -led government in exile in London to maintain, which is why a series of trips to Stockholm and London undertook. In the last months of the Second World War he also had several secret talks with officers of the Wehrmacht in order to determine the German plans for Norway. These talks ultimately led to an orderly transition to peace after the Germans surrendered in May 1945.

After the Second World War he held numerous political offices and was a leading politician in the ruling Social Democratic Labor Party . On November 5, 1945 he was appointed by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen to succeed Oscar Torp as Defense Minister in his first cabinet and at just 30 years of age was the youngest defense minister in Norway's history. He held this office in November 1951 after Gerhardsen's resignation in the subsequent cabinet of Oscar Torp until January 6, 1952. As Defense Minister he was the driving force behind Norway's previous policy of neutrality and joining NATO in 1949 . Immediately after the end of the war, this change in policy led Norway to participate in the British occupation forces in Germany with a troop contingent ( Tyskland Brigade ). During his tenure, the Institute for Defense Research was founded in 1945 and the Institute for Atomic Energy in 1948.

From January 22, 1955 to November 1, 1955, he was Minister of Justice in Gerhardsen's second cabinet for a short time. He then resumed his practice as a lawyer and was admitted as such to the Supreme Court ( Norges Høyesterett ) .

In the first ten years after the Second World War, he was one of the most influential politicians in Norway, and in addition to honors, there were also critical statements about his silence on important events of the stay-behind organization Milorg, such as the execution of collaborators or the strange circumstances the death of Milorg member Kai Holst immediately after the end of the war on June 27, 1945 in Stockholm.

After his political career he worked for various commercial companies and in 1960, through his influence on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ensured that Norway delivered heavy water to Israel , in which he declared that Israel would not use it for military purposes, but only for the civil nuclear program. In 1972 he was also involved in founding the state-owned oil company Statoil . He was also a board member of the airline SAS for more than 20 years .

He has been the namesake of the Haugebreen , a glacier in Antarctica, since 1969 .

media

Hauge's resistance activity during the German occupation of Norway was also part of the Norwegian drama Max Manus from 2008. He was portrayed here by Kyrre Haugen Sydness .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norwegian Ministries
  2. ↑ National foreign and alliance policy of the NATO member states . In: Norbert Theodor Wiggershaus, Winfried Heinemann (Hrsg.): Origin and problems of the Atlantic Alliance until 1956 . tape 2 . Oldenbourg, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56489-7 , pp. 89 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ End of the war in the north: from hot to cold war . In: Robert Bohn, Jürgen Elvert (Hrsg.): Historische Mitteilungen . tape 14 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06728-0 , pp. 242 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Breidlid, Olav: "The Norwegian Armed Forces in Germany from 1947 to 1953: Mission, Structure and Meaning"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.alfakom.se  
  5. ↑ Jølstad, Anders: "Tyskland som problem i norsk politikk"
  6. ↑ Riste, Olav: "With an Eye to History: The Origins and Development of" Stay-Behind "in Norway" , THE JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC STUDIES, December 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mil.no  
  7. ↑ "National hero led double life" , AFTENPOSTEN October 14, 2008 ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aftenposten.no

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personal data
SURNAME Hauge, Jens Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH North Beach (Oslo)
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2006
Place of death Oslo