Jonas Lie (politician)

Jonas Lie before 1940

Jonas Lie (born December 31, 1899 in Christiania , † May 11, 1945 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian politician and police officer . During the German occupation of Norway in World War II , he was Minister of Police in the Quisling government from 1942 to 1945 .

Life

Lie got his first name after his grandfather, the Norwegian writer Jonas Lie , his father Erik was also a writer. After training in law, he joined the Norwegian police service in 1930, where the fanatical anti-communist quickly made a career as a police officer. In 1936 he accompanied Leon Trotsky , who had initially found asylum in Norway, on a cargo ship to Mexico . In addition, Lie published several crime novels under the pseudonym Max Mauser .

After the German occupation of Norway in 1940 ( Operation Weser Exercise ), the German Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven appointed Lie as the country's acting police chief. In this role he became Vidkun Quisling's rival for the favor of the German occupiers . In 1935 he had left his party, Nasjonal Samling , but rejoined in 1940. He benefited from good contacts with Heinrich Himmler . Under pressure from Terboven, who initially wanted to replace Quisling with him, Quisling appointed him Minister of Police in his newly formed cabinet in 1942. Lie also became head of the Norwegian SS , which Himmler established in 1941 , most recently with the rank of SS standard leader. In this function, Lie was temporarily also on the Eastern Front with Einsatzgruppe D under Otto Ohlendorf , in order to find out more about the local conditions.

With the collapse of German rule in May 1945, Jonas Lie's career also ended. His death on May 11, 1945, the day Norway was liberated, has not been clarified. According to various sources, he is said to have shot himself or succumbed to a heart attack as a result of excessive alcohol consumption .

Web links

Brief biography (in English and Norwegian)

Individual evidence

^ Bjarte Bruland : Norway's Role in the Holocaust. In: The Routledge History of the Holocaust , Ed .: Jonathan C. Friedman, Routledge 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-77956-2 , pp. 236 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Lie, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian politician and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Christiania
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1945
Place of death	Oslo

[1] Bjarte Bruland : Norway's Role in the Holocaust. In: The Routledge History of the Holocaust , Ed .: Jonathan C. Friedman, Routledge 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-77956-2 , pp. 236 f.