Joachim Rønneberg

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Joachim Rønneberg (left)
The Joachim Rønneberg Monument in Ålesund, inaugurated in 2014

Joachim Holmboe Rønneberg (born August 30, 1919 in Ålesund ; † October 21, 2018 there ) was a Norwegian resistance fighter in World War II . With Operation Gunnerside , he delayed the construction of a German atomic bomb .

Wartime

After the German occupation of Norway in 1941, Rønneberg fled to Scotland with eight friends and received military training in the United Kingdom . As a member of Linge Company , he was deployed to prevent Norwegian heavy water production . After all 34 saboteurs and one of the two flight crews were killed in the previous Operation Freshman , the heavy water factory in Vemork was more closely guarded. Lieutenant Joachim Rønneberg took over the job and chose Lieutenant Knut Haukelid and Kasper Idland as well as Sergeants Fredrik Kayser, Hans Storhaug and Birger Stromsheim as companions. In the second attempt on February 28, 1943, all 18 electrolysis cells were destroyed by an explosion. Some of the members of the sabotage squad then went underground and some of them settled in neighboring, neutral Sweden . In 1945 he blew up the Stuguflåt railway bridge with three others in Operation Fieldfare in Sunnmøre .

Private

Rønneberg was born as the second son of Alf Rønneberg and Anna Sandberg Krag. Rønneberg married 24-year-old Liv Foldal on September 19, 1949.

Awards

literature

  • David Irving: As big as a pineapple ... 2nd sequel The British counter-offensive . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1967 ( online ).
  • Arnfinn Moland: Sabotasje i Norge under 2.verdenskrig . 2nd Edition. Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum, Oslo 1987, ISBN 82-991026-4-2 (Norwegian).
  • Per Voksø, John Berg: Krigens Dagbok - Norge 1940–1945 . 2nd Edition. Det Beste, Oslo 1994, ISBN 82-7010-245-8 (Norwegian).
  • Gunnar Mykleust : Tungtvannssabotøren Joachim H. Rønneberg - Linge-kar og fjellmann . 5th edition. Aschehoug, Oslo 2011, ISBN 978-82-03-29306-1 (Norwegian).
  • Andrew Higgins: WWII Hero Credits Luck and Chance in Foiling Hitler's Nuclear Ambitions . In: The New York Times . November 20, 2015 (English, nytimes.com ).
  • Damien Lewis: Hunting Hitler's Nukes - The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb . Quercus Publishing, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-78648-207-5 (English).
  • Giles Milton: Churchill's Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. John Murray Publishers Lt, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-4447-9898-2 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norwegian Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Rønneberg, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rønneberg, Joachim Holmboe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ålesund , Norway
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2018
Place of death Ålesund , Norway