Odd Nansen
Odd Nansen (born December 6, 1901 in Kristiania (now Oslo), † June 27, 1973 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian architect and philanthropist , son of the Norwegian statesman Fridtjof Nansen and co-founder of UNICEF .
Act
Odd Nansen founded Nansenhilfe for refugees and stateless persons in 1936 . Her office was closed by the Norwegian Nazi-controlled authorities in autumn 1942 .
Nansen was imprisoned as early as January 1942, initially in the Norwegian Grini camp and later in the German Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Although the writing of diaries was officially forbidden in the camp, he was able to write down the events in detail and publish them in 1946 with great success. In it he reported, for example, about the 10-year-old fellow prisoner "Tommy" Buergenthal , whom Nansen had to leave behind with a heavy heart in Sachsenhausen when he was evacuated to Sweden in April 1945 by the rescue operation of the White Buses . When contact was reestablished in 1948, Norwegian schoolchildren collected sweets and groceries for the Holocaust survivor of the same age .
In 1946 Odd Nansen was one of the founders of the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF .
Honors (selection)
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1970: Commander of the Saint Olav Order
Fonts (selection)
- Fra Dag Til Dag , 3 volumes, Dreyers, Oslo 1946.
- Von Tag zu Tag , Dulk, Hamburg 1949 (abridged edition, German by Ingeborg Goebel).
- I ellevte time. En appell til Europarådet om det tyske flyktningeproblem , Dreyer, Oslo 1951.
- Tommy. En sannferdig fortelling , Gyldendal, Oslo 1970 (via Thomas Buergenthal ).
Web links
- Newspaper article about Odd Nansen in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Buergenthal: Ein Glückskind , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 211.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nansen, Odd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian architect and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania (Oslo) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1973 |
| Place of death | Oslo |