Whom Elizabeth Arntzen

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Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen (born June 26, 1959 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian judge .

Career

Arntzen studied law and graduated in 1986. From 1989 to 2003 she worked as a lawyer. In 1993 she was admitted to the Supreme Court by the Attorney General's Office. From 2003 to 2007 she worked as a lawyer in the Oslo law firm Kluge Advokatfirma . She then worked as a legal advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice. Since 2007 Arntzen has worked as a judge at the District Court of the Oslo District Court.

She gained international fame as the presiding judge in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik , the perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in Norway . Already at the beginning of the trial, she removed lay judge Thomas Indrebö from his office. The reason for this was the doubted independence of Indrebös, as he demanded the death penalty for Breivik in a Facebook post he wrote immediately after the massacre. She herself was also described by Breivik as being biased about the process. He justified this with the fact that from 2009 until shortly before the start of the trial, Arntzen had been active in a committee that controls the country's secret and security services on behalf of the Storting (Norwegian parliament). The tasks of this committee also lie in monitoring the domestic intelligence service PST, which has been sharply criticized for not tracking Breivik before the attacks. The Oslo District Court nevertheless decided that Arntzen was not biased in this context. She was also a lecturer at the University of Oslo , where she taught ethics , among other things . Arntzen has been a judge at the Norwegian Supreme Court since 2014.

family

Her grandfather Sven Arntzen (1897–1976) was Attorney General at the Supreme Court in Norway. He participated in the drafting of the Landssvikanordning (treason ordinance) issued by the Norwegian government-in-exile on December 15, 1944, an ordinance with the character of a law that retroactively criminalized membership in the Nasjonal Samling , and was instrumental in its after the end of the German occupation Implementation involved. This ordinance is now viewed as not being in conformity with the constitution. Her father Andreas Arntzen (1928–2012) was also a well-known lawyer and criminal defense attorney in Norway, who also became known through the trial of Arne Treholt . Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen is married to a lawyer; the couple has two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jarle Grivi Brenna, Eva-Therese Loo Grøttum: This shall be all rescue hooks mot Breivik. In: Verdens Gang . December 23, 2011, accessed October 12, 2019 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Medlemmer. EOS-utvalget, December 23, 2011, archived from the original on June 3, 2012 ; Retrieved October 12, 2019 (Norwegian, Storting Control Committee for the Secret, Surveillance and Security Services). Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen: The judge. In: wz.de . April 17, 2012, accessed October 12, 2019 . Terror speech: relatives complain about Breivik speech. In: FTD.de . April 17, 2012, archived from the original on April 18, 2012 ; accessed on October 12, 2019 . Theresa Münch: Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen: The fate of mass murderer Breivik lies in her hands. In: Welt Online . April 19, 2012, accessed October 12, 2019 .


  3. ↑ Susanne Maerz: The long shadows of the occupation: “Coming to terms with the past” in Norway as a discourse on identity. Berlin 2008.
  4. ↑ Thorkild Hansen: Knut Hamsun: his time, his process. Munich 1987, p. 213.
  5. ↑ March: The Long Shadows of the Occupation. P. 73ff.
  6. ↑ John Olav Egeland, Arnhild Aass Kristiansen, Marie Melgård, Øystein Andersen: Tiltalte landssvikere, forsvarte Arne Treholt. In: Dagbladet . December 23, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2019 (Norwegian, "Andreas Arntzen defended the accused traitor Arne Treholt").
personal data
SURNAME Arntzen, Wenche Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian judge
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo